A 19 year-old man has been charged with manslaughter after the death of a 5 week-old baby last year.Police were called to an address in Ruakākā, south of Whangarei, in November.The newborn baby died at the scene.Northland... Read...

Plans to build an 850-seat Riverside conference centre in Whangarei have been revived. Read...

Customers at Whangarei`s busy Gull petrol station alongside SH1 in Raumanga, feared the place would go up in flames when a drink-driver deliberately sped into a petrol pump. Police were called to the popular pitstop at the southern... Read...

A Northland kindergarten is `spreading warmth` in the community and taking on a blanket initiative for the physical and mental wellbeing of the tamariki.Raumanga Kindergarten in Whangarei is urging the community to donate spare... Read...

A TikTok account showing people stealing cars and driving recklessly in Whangarei has surfaced. The social media account, with the username edubs.stole.my.car, posts videos showing cars with smashed windows and broken ignitions.... Read...

A woman critical of Vodafone for charging her mother-in-law a disconnection fee a day after her Whangārei house burned down has received an unexpected response from the company`s boss.Wendy Smith complained on Twitter yesterday... Read...

A woman scrambled to pull her toddler free from a child safety restraint as a driver speeding through a Whangārei shopping centre carpark hurtled into her parked vehicle. While the woman got her 1-year-old safely out, her... Read...

High on methamphetamine and wanting cash, a man targeted two dairies on the same day – attacking the owner of one with a metal bar, Whangarei District Court has heard. Eden Wetere, 32, was jailed for three years, 10 months, and... Read...

Six weeks of free parking in Whangarei starts on Monday to help city retailers overcome Omicron pain. Visitors to the city centre are asked not to feed coins into the `lollipop` and other parking meters from March 14 to April 25.... Read...

An Auckland driver determined to check on her sister`s welfare in Northland, sped through a Covid-19 checkpoint, defying police efforts to stop her, Whangarei District Court was told. Arrested after a high-speed escapade in which... Read...