Police have identified the three young people killed in a horror collision between their car and a bus on Saturday, leaving two others with serious injuries.

A quick-thinking hero who pulled a driver from a fiery crash which claimed the lives of two people, including a baby, said the man stank of alcohol and didn't know what day it was.

A man has died after being crushed in a wood-pulp rolling machine at the Carter Holt Harvey Tasman Mill in Kawerau.

Winston Peters is back with all guns blazing today in a speech slamming immigration, foreign ownership and the Government.

An animal control officer severely beaten while seizing an unregistered dog says he can never return to his job.

A Rotorua animal control officer suffered serious head injuries when beaten while investigating a complaint.