A baby narrowly avoided being crushed by a truck which flipped in slippery conditions on Auckland's North Shore today.

One man has been convicted of murder and two others acquitted after a jury accepted they acted in self-defence in the killing of Christchurch man last year.

A Hawke's Bay police officer has been stood down from duty after being charged with multiple counts of indecent assault.

A West Auckland principal is taking a zero-tolerance attitude to unruly students at his new school - and winning hearts and minds in the process.

A surgeon who has been the subject of several complaints about failing to properly inform patients has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines and costs after the death of a patient.

The Tri-Nations moves to the high ground and South African coach Peter de Villiers is on shaky ground.

Police visited the workplace of missing escort Carmen Thomas' ex-partner while he was out of the office.

John Barlow was jailed in 1995 for the execution-style killings of Wellington father and son businessmen Eugene and Gene Thomas.

Mazda New Zealand will be fixing vehicles affected by a power steering problem that has sparked a recall in the United States.

A grieving son says he was sickened when Air NZ said it needed to see a death certificate before it would change his flights.

The police hunt for the killer of Carmen Thomas today moved to rural southeast Auckland, after a newly reported sighting of her car around the time she went missing.

The country's Lions Clubs have struck a deal with the Reserve Bank to get the full value of defunct NZ coins, for charity.

A lone bee has been blamed for a truck crash that cut power to more than 1700 homes and put the driver in hospital.