A teenager was clinging to life last night as six crashes in 20 hours left one person dead and 15 needing hospital treatment.

A mystery man holding a broken umbrella is on a growing list of "people of interest" to police hunting missing toddler Aisling Symes.

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.

It will take several days to establish what caused the death of a 22-month-old girl taken to hospital with serious injuries, police say.

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.

A small community is reeling from the death of a popular teacher and new father mown down by a 70-year-old allegedly "blotto" from drink.