Northland Region

Back with Susanna very shortly on Night, and the detail coming up.

The short forecast till midnight Tuesday from MetService for Northland, Auckland, and Western Waikato, cloudy periods and a few showers.

The remainder of Waikato to Wellington, including Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, and the Central High Country, mainly fine with one or two showers in the east of Bay of Plenty, with areas of fog tomorrow morning.

Gisborne to Wairarapa, fine apart from isolated showers about northern Gisborne tonight.

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Ka haere mātou ko Eugene ko Adam ki te Tai Tokerau and we're going to go ride... our bikes along Te Pouhiringatai, which is the twin coast cycleway that runs from Opua to Mangunu and it runs along the now disused railway line up there.

We're going up there to speak to people along the trail, find out some kōrero of the people along the trail.

find out some history of the places of Te

Once you'd finished your teaching training, you were bonded to the education ministry for, I think it was three years or something, but that was great because you had to have more than three years teaching experience to get into the educational psychology course.

So I went up north to Northland, Kaikohe mostly, and Bay of Islands and got into teaching the special class kids because it was a bit of a lottery beginning of the teaching year.

We had 4A, 4B, 4C, and who wants to teach 4F? These were mostly guys that had been streamed on abilities, and I actually had seen them the year before as being quite hilarious.

And so I put my hand up, and that's how I got into special education, just sheer luck.

Fleur Fitzsimons says the union would prefer to be bargaining in good faith and is hoping today's strike will prompt the government to pick up the phone.

Police have charged a Northland man with manslaughter following the fatal mauling of a 62-year-old woman at a rural property north of Dargaville earlier this year.

Reporter Peter de

Graaf has more.

Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer says the arrest came after a challenging, six-month-long investigation.

It's believed to be only the second time a New Zealander has been charged with manslaughter after a dog attack.

Abel Weirah was jailed after his pack of 23 dogs killed his friend Neville Thompson in Pangaru, also in Northland, in 2022.

The British Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, says the international community has become frustrated with some of the actions of the Israeli government a day after he announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A Waiheke Island-based health trust is one of several organisations that's been told its home and community support contracts won't be renewed.

It comes as Te Whata Ora Health New Zealand moves to bulk fund services in Auckland and Northland, with long-standing providers finding out their contracts won't be renewed.

One operator says the changes contradict recent advice for improving services.

What's going on there? Well, Erin Johnson explains.