Friends and family have paid tribute to Olympian Geoff Smale after an air force Iroquois found...

Former Olympic yachtsman Geoff Smale's body has been recovered from Mount Duppa.

An injured hunter was winched out of the Kaimanawa Forest today after he fell and injured himself.

The wreckage of former Olympian Geoff Smale's microlight was found on Mount Duppa in the Bryant Range.

The Prime Minister says it's "disappointing" the Pike River Coal receivers have asked the Government for aid and that it is unlikely to pay their legal bill during the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

Maritime New Zealand has launched an inquiry into the Fullers GreatSights Bay of Islands vessel Excitor III after several passengers were injured, including one woman who had to spend 12 weeks in a body brace.

Three young girls were having the time of their lives before two were killed in a horrific boating accident yesterday.

Cash-strapped company Pike River Coal Ltd says it can only afford a limited role in the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

A teacher who crashed her car while brushing her teeth told police she had lost concentration.

Howls from a child trapped in a burning house compelled an 18-year-old neighbour to dash inside. "That was a cry that you would never hear in your life," said Wiremu Ropata, who was watching television at home and getting ready to go to bed

A driver in Melbourne survived an incredible six-storey plunge from a carpark building.

A crash involving a truck and a car has downed power lines on State Highway 1 in south Canterbury.