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.

More than half of the people injured in house fires went back into their burning home to fight the blaze or grab possessions.

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.