‘We can hear ourselves think again’: Stillness descends on Mangamuka as highway closes for the second time in two years
Two years ago a massive slip wiped out a highway and turned Mangamuka into a ghost town. Now it’s happened again.
Read moreTwo years ago a massive slip wiped out a highway and turned Mangamuka into a ghost town. Now it’s happened again.
Read moreBill Guest only left North Hokianga once and reckons it was only luck that brought him back alive. The 96-year-old veteran shares some of the horror, and humour, of World War II.
Read moreRangimārie Mules and Jared Hiakita didn’t want to start their life together shackled to a giant mortgage. Their solution was a tiny house on a trailer.
Read moreThree days of wildly beautiful coastline — and chances are you won’t have to share it with anyone.
Read moreOnce a year the Wild West saddles up and rides into Waimamaku for a day of highway robbery.
Read moreA Northland woman’s quest to discover the truth behind a century-year-old maritime tragedy has brought two peoples together – and brought peace to hundreds of “hungry ghosts”.
Read moreI’ve never been able to resist places at the end of the map. Show me a dead-end road, a peninsula or a cape, and I’ll show you somewhere alluring and mysterious.
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