Bridge swing operator Alistair McWhannell was today sentenced to 400 hours community service for the manslaughter of a student who fell to her death last year.

Thousands have farewelled a teenage girl killed while driving with friends to pick up their school ball gowns.

The student pilot who died after a mid-air collision with another plane in Feilding yesterday has been named.

Orewa College's board of trustees has been ordered to pay almost $137,000 over a fatal boiler room explosion.

A police officer suffered whiplash injuries after his car was rammed from behind when he slowed down for a school bus this morning.

The student pilot killed in yesterday's flight school crash was in her 60s and from the Kapiti Coast area, police said this morning.

Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner was well known for her kind and giving nature and finally donated her organs.

A boy's death-defying plunge from the top storey of an apartment block was the latest in a string of serious incidents involving King's students.

One plane landed safely after a mid-air collision in Feilding this afternoon, while the other crashed, killing the flying instructor and student occupants.

The balcony of an apartment from which a teen fell 16 storeys to a concrete floor and survived is to be examined to see if it has been modified.

Police made errors of judgment in a high-speed pursuit that ended with teen's death, the IPCA finds.

An independent report into the death of a Rotorua teen in 2007 is set to make a number of recommendations.

Police have named the 22-month-old girl killed when she was hit be a reversing car in her family's driveway.