Stories by Susan Botting

Councils representing more than half NZ's population are calling on the government for more money and support to be thrown at one of the world's worst invasive marine seaweed pests recently discovered…

One of the most expensive berths in Whangārei's $20 million Okara Marina will cost more than $500,000.

Bay of Islands officials are concerned about what the invasive seaweed could mean for the region's environment and economy.

Kaipara District Council's push to build a controversial waste to energy plant in or near Auckland includes the 41 per cent Chinese-owned company aiming to build a $350 million equivalent in…

Whangārei's old town hall "eyesore" is to live on in a now $7.43 million renovation due to start by June - in spite of five of the city's leaders wanting...

A former councillor has told Whangārei District Council that Kensington residents have had enough of the rescue helicopter nightmare in their suburb.

Northland's worst-hit Cyclone Gabrielle district is deferring more than $10 million of planned work rather than almost doubling its rates to pay for major Cyclone Gabrielle damage.

More than $22 million has been shaved off plans for a controversial wastewater scheme that would see Mangawhai sewage redirected into a golf course.

A karakia rang out across Kaipara District Council's monthly meeting on 29 March, just four months after new Mayor Craig Jepson banned its use.

Waka Kotahi is revealing 'a timeline to reopening' State Highway One over the Mangamuka Gorge on Friday as the road undergoes a $100 million repair job.

Northland Mayoral Forum chair Vince Cocurullo says Cyclone Gabrielle exacerbated existing infrastructure damage, spreading across the region like smallpox.

Whangārei District Council has once again stepped into the Oruku conference and event centre ring with a decision to put as much as $11.4 million towards the new version of the facility on the edge of…

Cyclone Gabrielle was almost the final nail in the coffin for the $33 million tourist attraction.

Major increases are expected to be added to that amount as more definite figures emerge.

Whangārei Harbour - and others along Northland's east coast - are at risk from a new superspreader invasive pest seaweed devastating parts of Great Barrier Island, a Northland ocean ecologist...

A former Whangārei mayoral candidate is concerned about potentially toxic black mould for the 500 staff who will soon move into the building.

Marae play a key role in housing people after disasters and need more government backing, the prime minister says.

"We are talking years. If we are wanting to build a new highway, that's years."

The district's sole Māori ward councillor says she will not give up the fight to have every meeting start with one.

Far North District Council is remaining tight-lipped about the details surrounding the resignation of its chief executive Blair King.

The Te Tai Tokerau MP says Northlanders should not expect gold-plated fixes for the region's Cyclone Gabrielle-ravaged roads.

Twenty Kaipara properties have been red-stickered as the district begins to count the cost of Cyclone Gabrielle's fury.

Kaipara District councillor Ash Nayyar says he has been inspired by the human spirit after being rescued from raging floodwaters in the early-morning darkness.

Dargaville businesses are hurriedly sandbagging their premises amidst growing flooding fears as Cyclone Gabrielle's prevailing winds swing round to the south-west.

Whangārei would cope reasonably well if an Auckland-style rain deluge hit the district, Mayor Vince Cocurullo says.