A teenager has been charged with dangerous driving causing death after a four-year-old boy was hit by a car on a footpath in May.

The search for a plane carrying one of Australia's richest men and the entire board of one of the country's mining companies resumed last night.

Police have named the woman killed when a stolen car crashed in Auckland on Friday.

Two people are on their way to hospital after a car and trailer went over a bank in the central North Island.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority will investigate the death of a 22-year-old man after a brief police chase in Christchurch this morning.

The driver of a car that smashed into a house left behind dead and dying friends to escape with those he was racing against just seconds before.

Alistair McWhannell has been found guilty of manslaughter in the bridge-swinging death of Massey University student Catherine Peters.