Senior Whakatane Maori academic drowns
A senior member of Whakatane's Maori university, Mark Laws, drowned yesterday at the East Cape settlement of Te Kaha.
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Men missing at sea found alive
Both of the men missing after their small boat capsized off Wellington's south coast last night have been found alive.
Boy, 8, dies from hot pool burns
The 8-year-old boy who fell into a geothermal pool as hot as 100C on Boxing Day has died.
Injured bus driver's wife grateful to quick-thinking helpers
The wife of Ross McSheffrey, who was pinned under his own bus yesterday, has paid tribute to his rescuers.
Boy, 8, in hot pool horror
An 8-year-old boy is this morning fighting for his life after falling into a Rotorua geothermal pool as hot as 100C.
Digger used to lift bus off trapped driver
A contractor who used his digger to lift a bus off its trapped driver, and an off-duty nurse may have saved the man's life yesterday.
Two crashes bring road toll to five
The deaths of a teen riding on the back of a truck and a motorcylist this afternoon have brought the holiday road toll to five, while a serious crash stalled holiday traffic through Warkworth, north of Auckland.
Driver run over by own bus
A bus driver is in a critical condition after being run over by his own bus, which rolled about 40m after he parked it in gear, outside Waikato Hospital in Hamilton this morning.
Boy severely burnt in hot pool
An 8-year-old boy suffered horrific burns after falling into a geothermal hot pool in Rotorua.
Good start to holiday period on the road
Drivers appear to be taking more care on the roads over the Christmas period, with police noting a reduction in road crashes this year.
Ten hospitalised following multi-vehicle crash
A multi-vehicle pile up in Hawkes Bay has put 10 people in hospital, three with critical injuries, say police. Two tourists, one German and one Italian, are among those injured.
Crash victim remains in a serious condition
A 20-year-old man remains in a serious condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit after a crash in the Waikato last night.
Crash takes holiday road toll to three
The official holiday road death toll has risen to three after a 17-year-old was killed in a Hawkes Bay crash.
Flung to death in front of wife
A kiteboarder killed in front of his wife in a Christmas holiday tragedy was lifted 20 metres in the air by a gust of wind - and flung to his death more than a kilometre away.
Police look at new speed cameras
Police are setting a new trap for speeding drivers who slam on their brakes at the last minute for roadside speed cameras. The point-to-point cameras record the time a car takes to travel between two points.
He was going to cook his family Christmas dinner
The family of a father-of-two hit by a car yesterday are grieving for 'a wonderful family man'.
More Kiwis die on foreign soil
Kiwi's lax attitude to getting our travel jabs may be killing us.
Police appeal after hit-and-run death
Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run in Manukau early today, which took the holiday road toll to two.