The jury has been selected for the trial of a man accused of deliberately driving his car into two other vehicles, killing a young woman.

One person was killed and another critically injured when a van carrying eight people crashed yesterday.

Margaret Modricker, who lost her mother in the 1979 disaster, says today's apology should have been done decades ago.

Air New Zealand has apologised to the families of those killed in the 1979 Mt Erebus crash for the first time.

On Monday, a US tourist was overjoyed when his girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal, the next day she died swimming in the Sounds.