A woman who was injured and lost her friend after a drink driver crashed into their picnic says she is still suffering from emotional trauma.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman hit by a car while picnicking with a friend on the roadside north of Wellington last month.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

The rescue was of Hollywood proportions... A man and his wife are in a taxi, they see a little boy standing on the tracks...

A witness to the accident in which a truck driver was impaled by a canoe says it was "swinging out on to the oncoming lane like a jousting pole".

Police are searching for a man who smashed a car into an overbridge near Levin and took off on foot early today.

Slips and surface flooding are causing havoc for motorists in the lower North Island as heavy rain and gale force winds sweep the region.

A woman's habit of buying a Lotto ticket in each new town she visits has paid off.

A critically injured man who was struck by a train in Levin has woken up and acknowledged his name is Alan.

Police have released photographs of the injured man as a "last resort" in an effort to identify him.

The name Alan was muttered by the man hit by a train in Levin on Friday night and may offer a clue to his identity.

A motorcyclist was spotted travelling along a busy stretch of SH1 at a speed described by one officer as unsurvivable if there was a crash.

Once, cycling was dominated by couriers and lycra-clad racers.