A teenager has died after being swept away by the Waikato River near Taupo.

A teacher who claims he was fired after raising concerns about a string of incidents at his school has won a claim for unjustified dismissal.

The grieving families of two teenage boys killed in separate crashes have spoken of their loss.

The death of a Waimate man brings the number of road deaths since the start of the Easter holidays to 22.

An Eagle Air plane has made an emergency landing because of an open cargo door.

A 72-year-old man was comforted at the roadside after his 96-year-old mother was fatally struck by a utility vehicle yesterday.

Teenager Rochelle Elston had been working hard milking cows to save money for a trip to the Gold Coast with her father.

A quick-thinking hero who pulled a driver from a fiery crash which claimed the lives of two people, including a baby, said the man stank of alcohol and didn't know what day it was.

Several sheets of glass fell on men unloading a shipping container, one breaking and causing fatal wounds to a worker yesterday, police say.

Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend today's funeral service for a teenager killed in a speedway accident over Easter Weekend.

A pig-hunting teenager who died after rolling his vehicle was not found until two days after his crash, when his father became concerned about his disappearance.

Guy Sainsbury came across a group of people who had seen a vehicle 80m down a bank, and decided to look around the area himself.