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.

Just a day after a man's nasty 60m tumble, an Australian man is lucky to be alive after a big fall in the same area.

An Auckland climber fell "like a rag doll" after slipping while decending from Mt Ruapehu's Dome Summit.