Two people are dead and five others have been taken to hospital after a vehicle carrying seven people rolled this morning near Foxton.

A Hamilton man run over by his own bus in December has left hospital.

Two teenagers involved in a jetski incident in which Rotorua teenager Bishop Thompson died will face charges.

Relatives of the 257 people killed in the Mt Erebus air disaster returned last night from an emotional memorial service in Antarctica.

His parents were among the 257 people killed in the Mt Erebus disaster, so now Andrew Bond is going to complete their Antarctic trip for them.

Nick Smith has ruled out holding an independent review of ACC's procedures around elective surgery claims unless the corporation begins to lose large numbers of appeals against its decisions.

The teenaged son of a woman who died after an out-of-control driver smashed into a group of cyclists and killed three of them has described the scene of roadside carnage which will haunt him for the rest of his life.

A young woman involved in a fatal collision that killed three cyclists late last year has been sentenced to 300 hours community service and fined $10,000 on each of three charges.

A 13-month-old girl run over in her west Auckland driveway died despite the frantic efforts of family members who rushed her to hospital.