Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy after a man died from stab wounds at a Northland tavern last night.Police said emergency services were called to a tavern on Opua Paihia Main Rd, State Highway 11 in Opua in the Bay of Islands.... Read...
By RNZ People in the Far North are being told to reduce water consumption immediately because of unprecedented demand.The district council says a water treatment plant in Paihia is now running 24 hours a day and storage reservoirs... Read...
A bedside court hearing has been held for the man accused of extortion at a Paihia bank shortly before he was critically injured in a high-speed crash. The 22-year-old, who is under police guard in Whangārei Hospital, was charged... Read...
A brazen attempt by a couple to force a man to withdraw money from his Bay of Islands bank yesterday was foiled when alert bank staff triggered a silent alarm bringing armed police swarming to the scene.A short time later, one alleged... Read...
A witness has described the dramatic sight of armed police swarming a vehicle in Paihia this morning, as emergency services scrambled to save the life of a man injured in a Moerewa car wreck, said to be linked to an `incident` at... Read...