Stories by Sam Olley

Spending time in America has been more and more common for NZ athletes, who were keeping one eye on the Olympics.

The housing crisis is hitting Kaikohe so badly overcrowding is now the norm, not the exception, residents say.

Homes are being snapped up after less than a week on the market in Kaikohe, driving out families who were renting, and sometimes have nowhere else to go.

Midwives in Auckland and Northland walked off the job and onto the streets today kicking off consecutive days of rolling strikes across the country.

A beneficiary who was stuck in Sydney with her sick sister will be paid back hundreds of dollars after a Ministry of Social Development U-turn.

A Taranaki couple who got stranded in Sydney say the MIQ booking system is "madness" although they are grateful for the spots they eventually received.

The North Shore Rowing Club is beaming with pride this weekend.

The Department of Conservation's marine mammal sanctuary proposal in Te Pēwhairangi - the Bay of Islands is being criticised by marine biologists for containing inadequate information.

Napier City councillors are sticking up for the National Aquarium amid concerns about animal welfare and possible closure.

The World Test Cricket Championship trophy is on its way around Aotearoa.

Sharks with sore noses, water filter breakdowns and a turtle welfare petition. What's going on at the National Aquarium of New Zealand?

Whakaari / White Island tourism companies have each received hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funding since the tragedy.

Larger people need longer needles so their Covid-19 vaccinations make it deep into their muscle, but there is no exact criteria to say who needs it and who doesn't.

Two leading Māori mental health practitioners want to see major changes to compulsory treatments when the government replaces the Mental Health Act.

A teenager has admitted stabbing another teen to death at a party in the Bay of Islands.

Whānau are leaving their farm trucks in the car park and their gumboots on the doorstep to get Covid-19 vaccinations at the top of the country.

Whangārei rough sleepers are facing trespass notices amid a rapid rise in homelessness.

The number of people sleeping rough in one of New Zealand's "homeless hotspots" is growing at an alarming rate - from 21 people to 293, between 2018 and 2020.

Whangārei District Council is pulling out of the government's three waters reforms after a scathing debate between elected representatives.

The family of Northland woman Bridget Simmonds, whose body was found this year, say the murder conviction will not end their grief.

A Northland man has been found guilty of murdering his former partner Bridget Simmonds.

Lawyers have addressed the jury for the final time in the Bridget Simmonds murder trial in the High Court at Whangārei.

A man with Motor Neurone Disease is using an online auction to sell items he can no longer use, in an order which reflects his body's deterioration.

The broken bones of a Northland woman found after 15 months have been described to a High Court jury this morning.

Kōiwi tangata deserve more respect, tangata whenua and archaeologists say after mystery bones believed to be human were dumped at Russell Museum.