Heavy rain overnight has caused a slip has closed State Highway 11 at Lemons Hill, between Kawakawa and Paihia.The New Zealand Transport Agency has advised motorists to follow directions of emergency services as detours have been... Read...

Students - rather than politicians - have been asking Jacinda Ardern the tough questions at a special picnic. Read...

A sodden sky has rendered the view from the end of Paihia wharf obsolete. Russell has disappeared in the rain. My hair, clothes and feet are wet, but it is 21 degrees at dinnertime and some of that could be sweat. It is too humid... Read...

Passenger ferries in the Bay of Islands are expected to resume sailing this afternoon as the storm which battered Northland overnight recedes. On Thursday evening the Paihia-Russell passenger ferry had been scheduled to run until... Read...

A French tourist has been caught in Paihia with 24kg of cocaine - worth up to $10.8 million.Customs officers found the drug on a cruise ship and a French national, aged 26, has been charged.The cocaine seizure is one of the largest... Read...

Paihia firefighters called to a late-night crash had to stop flames from the burning wreck spreading into bush and threatening a nearby house. The Paihia Fire Brigade was initially called out to a car upside-down in a ditch on State... Read...

Police and coastguard officials have been seen swarming an island off Paihia in the Bay of Islands.A witness told the Herald he had seen a Coastguard plane circle the island about 20 times.A Coastguard boat had been anchored... Read...

A large shed packed with sound and musical equipment has been destroyed in a major fire in Kerikeri.The blaze broke out around noon at a property on Waipapa Rd. Firefighters responded from Kerikeri, Okaihau and Paihia and were still... Read...

The Bay of Islands SPCA is urgently appealing for information after a bag containing dead puppies was found by a member of the public on the Paihia to Opua coastal walkway.The gruesome discovery was made near Smiths Rd about 5pm... Read...

Today`s speech by Winston Peters at his party`s election-year conference was close to his 50th of the year.Dargaville, Waipu, Cheviot, Whakatane, Paihia, Pukekohe, Motueka, Hokitika, Timaru, Oamaru, Gore, Thames ... and now in Manukau.Peters... Read...