A small community group which has challenged Tegel Foods` proposal to build a mega chicken farm near Dargaville has vowed to fight the plans until the end. Read...
A toddler has been airlifted to Middlemore Hospital suffering burn injuries after falling into a fire pit in Northland.The incident is understood to have happened this afternoon on a farm south of Dargaville. DO YOU KNOW MORE?... Read...
The Department of Conservation is investigating after a beachgoer found a protected leopard seal shot in the head.Shane Searle found the dead animal on a beach near Dargaville on Friday morning. He had seen the same seal the day... Read...
Severe weather brought down power lines and cut electricity to 77 homes in the Tokatoka area south of Dargaville in the early hours of this morning. Read...
A Dargaville group opposing the building of New Zealand`s biggest ever broiler chicken factory is making a desperate attempt to raise $60,000 to hire experts to represent them at the upcoming resource consent hearings. Read...
The celebrated painter Milan Mrkusich, who was a pioneer abstract artist in New Zealand, has died.Born in Dargaville in 1925 and one of New Zealand`s oldest living artists, Mrkusich was considered alongside Don Peebles, Gordon Walters,... Read...
A man is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a bull this afternoon. Emergency services were called to a property in the small town of Ruawai, just south of Dargaville in Northland, shortly after midday. Fire crews were... Read...
Police are looking to identify a robber that left a service station attendant traumatised on Wednesday after holding up the Dargaville store with a knife. Police are appealing to the public for help to identify and locate the offender... Read...
RUGBY Skipper Dalton Papali'i is allaying fears over his health after leaving the field late in the Blues' 34-20 Super Rugby semifinal victory over the Brumbies in Auckland More...
BUSINESS Tough times for WorkSafe have been laid bare - in a newly released Cabinet paper More...