Four days after a woman's body was found face-down in a creek after a bicycle accident, police remain mystified as to her identity.

Police are trying to establish what up to five men were doing on Piha Beach's Lion Rock in the moments before two of them fell 60m.

The first medical officer on the scene after two men fell from Piha's Lion Rock found one man hardly breathing and the other with mangled legs.

Two men are fighting for their lives after falling more than 20 metres from Lion Rock on Auckland's west coast early today.

A boy who died after a trail bike crash on the open road was part of a family who witnessed another tragic quadbike accident two months ago.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett yesterday continued to fight for his political life.

A former NZ businessman who bought the Princess Ashika ferry for Tonga has been arrested on charges of forgery.

A 14-year-old youth will appear in court charged with arson after a huge fire north of Wellington forced over a hundred people to evacuate their homes.

An Auckland teenager spent 18 hours clinging to a liferaft off the coast of Brazil after her ship capsized.