Gisborne's Gordon Williamson is Central Football's referee of the year for the federation covering the central North Island – from Taranaki in the west to Gisborne in the east. Gordon Williamson took ...

Of Aotearoa’s seven Māori seats, Te Tai Tokerau is probably the most contested and the hardest to call. This sprawling electorate stretches 400km from Te Rerenga Wairua/Cape Rēinga to the North Shore ...

Arsenal suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in their history as the Premier League champions were beaten by fourth-tier minnows Fleetwood in a League Cup penalty shootout ...

Descendants of Te Whakatōhea have reaffirmed their connection to an ornate woven taonga which has long been beyond their reach. A group from the Bay of Plenty iwi recently returned from the United ...

Whichever side wins this election will walk straight into a governmental and constitutional minefield. That will be because the vote for small parties is so high and the vote for the two main parties ...

Te Tai Tokerau Party candidate promises to repeal laws she says harm Te Tiriti and whānau.

Te Tai Tokerau Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi answers quick-fire policy questions put to her by the Northern Advocate ahead of the 2026 election.

More than seven hours alone, barefoot and dehydrated in steep bushland awaited a Far North man who became separated from his hunting party on Sunday night. He was eventually spotted on a steep cliff ...

A Manawatū councillor says “rural mobile coverage has gone backwards”, as a new report finds about two in three farmers can’t reliably call 111 on their farms. Since the shutdown of 3G mobile networks ...

Footage has emerged of the most brazen break-and-enter of the weekend - a rogue sheep “ram raiding” a Christchurch charity’s building. The animal smashed a window of the Comcare Trust building on ...

Israeli voters have given a narrow edge to Opposition parties over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, initial projections showed, after a decades-high turnout in the country’s first election since the ...

Smoke from a vegetation fire burning about 150km away is dissipating, but a Health New Zealand health warning for Napier and Hastings remains in place. Health NZ announced on its Hawke’s Bay Facebook ...