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.

Public confidence in the New Zealand police has increased since last year, according to an annual survey.

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.

A man who killed himself in police custody could have been saved if police had followed proper procedures, the IPCA finds.

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

All the crashes which caused seven fatalities this Labour weekend were avoidable, say police.