The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.

South African tourist Tayla Storm has lost her battle against a deadly bug that struck her down on her first overseas trip.

The mother of a teenager who was found on fire outside his Tauranga home is desperate for answers.

Drunk youths are turning up at Auckland emergency rooms at the rate of almost one a day, says the ADHB.

Doctors in England effectively froze a 16-week-old baby for four days to cure a potentially fatal heart defect.

Calls for mothers to stop sleeping with their newborn children are being ignored by some hospitals and birthing centres.