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Most popular news in 2012
Kim Dotcom and a spate of natural disasters have been among the most popular topics with New Zealand Herald readers this year.
Kim Dotcom and a spate of natural disasters have been among the most popular topics with New Zealand Herald readers this year.
Seven months ago their lives were a happy chaos as they raised energetic and vibrant triplets Lillie, Jackson and Willsher.
You could forgive Shiu Narayan if the word "insurance" tasted sour in his mouth this morning.
The Christmas Eve death of a toddler in a tragic driveway accident has left a tiny lakeside village reeling.
A woman on a suspended driver's licence allegedly fled the scene of a crash which killed a 71-year-old woman who was travelling with her family on Christmas Day.
A man watched in horror as his brother drowned in stormy surf at Whiritoa beach on the Coromandel Peninsula on Christmas Eve.
A three-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car in the driveway of a property near Taupo.
No health and safety charges will be laid over a fatal car accident at a Rimu goldmine in August, in which a Hokitika boy died.
Staff at TV3 are in grief over the loss of a popular colleague and young mother, who was killed in a car crash that also seriously injured her two young daughters.
Early on the morning of May 12, 8-year-old Michelle O'Brien showed humanity, kindness, and selfless bravery when faced with the unthinkable.
A Bay of Plenty mother says parents need to be aware of potential danger associated with alloy wheels after her 16-month-old daughter suffered serious burns.
Four farmhands who died in a horrific early morning crash were not wearing seatbelts and three were thrown from the "unsafe" vehicle when its roof was torn off.
The parents of 2-year-old triplets who died in a Doha mall fire will be surrounded by family as they face their first Christmas without their "three little monkeys".
One person has been taken to hospital following a crash between a car and a truck in Carterton this morning.
A Northland family have a quick-thinking passer-by to thank for saving their lives after a bizarre crash described by a policeman as the luckiest escape he has seen.
Sprinklers in a Doha mall could have stopped the smoke that claimed the lives of 19 people including young New Zealand triplets - if they were working.
Statistically, Dunedin is New Zealand's worst city for motor vehicle crashes and casualties - but Palmerston North, Hamilton and Napier aren't far behind.
A cyclist who was almost killed when she and her husband were hit by a vehicle on a rural Taupo road says she no longer has any anger towards the driver.
The family of the woman found dead along with her partner and three children in the wreckage of their crashed car near Tokoroa have spoken of their grief.
The two Indian men who were killed in a crash near Tokoroa yesterday have been named as a father and son from Jharkhand in eastern India.
A 3-week-old boy died with four members of his family in a crash in the Waikato - and may have lain in the wreckage since Sunday night.
Police have named a family of five killed in a Waikato crash, whose bodies were found today, shortly after another fatal accident in the region.