A toddler has been airlifted to Middlemore Hospital suffering burn injuries after falling into a fire pit in Northland.The incident is understood to have happened this afternoon on a farm south of Dargaville. DO YOU KNOW MORE?... Read...
The Department of Conservation is investigating after a beachgoer found a protected leopard seal shot in the head.Shane Searle found the dead animal on a beach near Dargaville on Friday morning. He had seen the same seal the day... Read...
Severe weather brought down power lines and cut electricity to 77 homes in the Tokatoka area south of Dargaville in the early hours of this morning. Read...
A Dargaville group opposing the building of New Zealand`s biggest ever broiler chicken factory is making a desperate attempt to raise $60,000 to hire experts to represent them at the upcoming resource consent hearings. Read...
The celebrated painter Milan Mrkusich, who was a pioneer abstract artist in New Zealand, has died.Born in Dargaville in 1925 and one of New Zealand`s oldest living artists, Mrkusich was considered alongside Don Peebles, Gordon Walters,... Read...
A man is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a bull this afternoon. Emergency services were called to a property in the small town of Ruawai, just south of Dargaville in Northland, shortly after midday. Fire crews were... Read...
Police are looking to identify a robber that left a service station attendant traumatised on Wednesday after holding up the Dargaville store with a knife. Police are appealing to the public for help to identify and locate the offender... Read...
Only 17 of the nearly 5000 submissions are in support of a proposed broiler chicken farm just outside Dargaville.Northland Regional Council received 2458 submissions with seven in support while 2234 were lodged with the Kaipara... Read...