The Orewa College board of trustees pleads guilty to charges laid against the school after a fatal boiler-room blast last June.

Police yesterday sealed off a suburban Auckland street after a woman barricaded herself in her home and threatened to release nerve gas.

A 15-year-old's quick reactions and CPR expertise ensured a happy ending to a cardiac emergency.

Police have named the motorcyclist who died when his bike collided with a patrol car which was doing a U-turn at the time.

Police are investigating after a body was found near Te Urewera National Park.

Police have lifted a cordon set after a bomb threat was made against a central Auckland bank today.

The grieving families of two teenage boys killed in separate crashes have spoken of their loss.

A quick-thinking hero who pulled a driver from a fiery crash which claimed the lives of two people, including a baby, said the man stank of alcohol and didn't know what day it was.

Several sheets of glass fell on men unloading a shipping container, one breaking and causing fatal wounds to a worker yesterday, police say.

Large sheets of glass crashed down and killed a man at an industrial site last night. Four of his colleagues were injured trying to rescue him.

Two double-fatalities and the death of a baby pushed the Easter road toll to nine last night.