Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.

Police have named the Morrinsville toddler who died in hospital on Saturday night.

When the Fire Service called John Weatherley and told him there was a problem at home he thought his house must have burned down.

This is the 70-year-old grandmother accused of drink-driving and killing a new dad.

A man who allegedly held a gun and knife at staff of a church close to a daycare centre had previously sent two angry emails to the church.

Police have all but ruled out foul play over the death of a woman whose body was found at a house south of Auckland yesterday.

The 18-year-old killed when he fell through an ice shelf loved the outdoors and planned to be an environmental engineer.

An Auckland student missing after falling through an ice shelf on a South Island mountain is named.

A St John investigation has found insufficient training of call staff in its swine flu pandemic protocols was a key factor in ambulance response delays.

The search for teh missing 19-year-old skier in the Southern Alps has been called off.