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Defence chief apologises over way bomb death handled
The country's top military leader has publicly apologised to the family of an airman killed when an old artillery round unexpectedly exploded.
The country's top military leader has publicly apologised to the family of an airman killed when an old artillery round unexpectedly exploded.
One witness has told a murder trial the accused was kissing his girlfriend before he crashed into a car, and another that they were arguing.
A motorcycle crash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge caused northbound traffic to grind to a halt this afternoon.
Two occupants of a plane which crashed near Ohakune this morning have survived unscathed.
A man has admitted killing his two friends when he sped away from police and crashed into two power poles.
Police say they are "devastated" by the Labour Weekend road toll, which closed at eight - the same number as last year.
A widow wants pilots to stay away from a helicopter involved in 30 crashes in six years in which nine people have died, including two this month.
All the crashes which caused seven fatalities this Labour weekend were avoidable, say police.
The principal of a tiny school in the Hutt Valley faces the heart-breaking task of telling pupils a popular teacher was shot dead at the weekend by a hunter stalking deer at night.
Six people have died in five separate Labour Weekend accidents in Wanganui, Southland, Canterbury, Hawke's Bay and the Waikato.
A midday crash in Southland has resulted in one fatality, bringing the holiday road toll to two after a fatal crash in Hawkes Bay.