The life of the party this festive season may be defibrillators.

Three teenage boys have been praised as heroes for their actions after a serious collision.

A young man is dead after his car crossed the centre line and was partially crushed under a school bus carrying 21 teenagers.

A plane that crashed near Fox Glacier, killing nine, is believed to have been over its maximum allowable weight and off-balance.

Tainui board members are deciding between former Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards or Parekawhia McLean to lead the tribe's administrative arm.

Injured motorcyclists were airlifted to hospitals in two separate incidents in the lower North Island today.

North Shore Hospital has apologised for leaving an elderly heart patient in the emergency department for five hours between doctor consultations.

An ambulance answering an emergency call and another vehicle collided in last night, causing a rush-hour traffic snarl-up.

Fireworks might legally go on sale only today, but already firefighters have been called to a school blaze deliberately caused by them.

Police have defended their appointment of a senior officer, the alleged subject of claims of sexual harassment, to a plum job in London.