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Boy hospitalised after Whangarei crash

Girl renamed herself 'Mrs Ugly' after repeated abuse

Details of a young girl's ordeal and that of two others were revealed during the sentencing of their attacker, Keith Stewart Luke.

Parents 'organised fights' to settle playground rows

Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.

Happy ending for orca family after stranding

Whale's calls of distress brought mother and brother dangerously close to shore.

Police amazed $3500 lost in supermarket handed in

Teen Northland crash victims named

Engine's roar alerts locals to fatal crash

Neighbours heard the roar of a car engine before it hit the kerb and became airborne twice before skidding into the creek on its side.

Two dead after car's river crash

Crew raise fears as ship deaths probed

Two crewmen die in ship rescue drama

Two crewmen died of suffocation and another was critically hurt in a log ship's hold at Marsden Pt wharf yesterday.

Two dead in Northland port log accident

Two crewmen are dead after suffocating in a ship's timber hold at Marsden Point wharf near Whangarei this afternoon.

NZ Barbarians to play Maori

Whangarei barrister appointed judge

Armed standoff ends peacefully

Ports - There will be blood

Owner cries foul over email

A restauranteur claims her business was pushed to the brink of closure by an email from a disgruntled customer spread "all around town".