Nine tourists have been stranded by floodwaters on State Highway 1 north of Oamaru after failing to observe warning signs earlier today.

Napier police are hunting a "skinny" Maori man wearing dark pants and a blue hoodie after a dairy owner was stabbed this morning.

An experienced helicopter pilot from has been killed after hitting power lines in Australia after surviving a similar accident in 2008.

Maka Renata, a sex offender who was coached to stalk and rape by his uncle is on the run after breaching his parole conditions a second time.

Two men are lucky to be alive after missing explosive gel and a box of detonators by half an inch while ploughing with a rotary hoe.

Bar patrons took a drunk man outside because they thought he was about to vomit, not realising he was choking on a pie, the coroner has found.

Two men charged with assault after the death of a 23-year-old man in Hastings last night will appear in court today.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two men in Dannevirke last night, then left in a paddock.

A 3-year-old boy was bitten by a police dog in front of more than 30 children during a kindergarten visit.

Winz staff told a woman with a university bachelor degree to "dumb down" her CV before applying for jobs.

We're sitting at the top of a sun-drenched Hawkes Bay vineyard looking out to sea over heavily laden pinot gris vines which have just been harvested.

A teenager needed two rows of stitches and a steel plate to repair his shattered jaw after being beaten over the colour of his T-shirt.

Police are hunting a man who they say sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Napier girl as she slept in her bed late last night.