East Coast Maori will light fires tomorrow in a symbolic protest against potential oil drilling by Brazilian giant Petrobras.

Queen's Birthday weekend has seen a drop in the overall number of crashes, with police trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.

The first person to be killed on the roads this holiday weekend was "a good mummy who loved her kids".

The captain of a fishing trawler befriended by Moko reckons the tunes of AC/DC might be part of the allure.

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with murder after a man was found dead in a Gisborne house this morning.

A Gisborne school community is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.