A one-year-old baby is in a serious condition in Waikato Hospital after choking on a Twistie on Friday. The baby was brought in to Te Kuiti Hospital in the afternoon with choking and seizures after reportedly eating a "Twistie" snack.

Who would have thought you'd see a garage sale on one of NZ's poshest streets? But this was no ordinary garage sale on Auckland's swanky Paritai Drive yesterday.

Flooding in NSW looks set to cost the state and federal governments billions of dollars in relief.

A Santa parade in Greymouth today brought some much needed cheer to the community.

The beef processing plant badly damaged by fire at Te Aroha, near Hamilton, overnight may be rebuilt into a world-class plant, owner Silver Fern Farms says.

A Hamilton teenager led police on a high speed chase reaching speeds of 120km/h before he was caught early this morning.

Teenagers in South Auckland are being sent to work as prostitutes by their parents to pay for drugs, says a councillor.

NZ taxpayers have spent more than half a billion dollars over the past decade subsidising Hollywood.