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

The Palmerston North rescue helicopter has airlifted two trampers out of the bush.

NZ Post allowed a Manawatu mailman to keep driving for them, despite knowing about a string of drink-driving convictions.

The Law Society has renewed its call to reinstate the partial defence of provocation following its successful use in the Bourke manslaughter case.

Police investigating the shooting of a school caretaker in Palmerston North yesterday say it may be linked to similar incidents in recent months.

The trial has begun of a freezing worker accused of shooting dead his brother and driving around the lower North Island with him in the back seat, avoiding police during a two-day manhunt.

Arsonist Phoebe O'Donaghue has no remorse and no empathy for the family whose house she torched as they slept, a Probation Service report says.

David Dougherty - compensated in 2001 for wrongful imprisonment - is in court again accused of stealing meat, beer, socks, DVDs and underwear.

A hospital emergency department is being investigated after a doctor filled out a "do not resuscitate" order, allegedly without consent.

A man who rescued two of his children from a house fire last night was lucky to escape with only burns to his hand, the Fire Service says.

Diana Clement and a friend took two long weekends away from men and children to discover the tracks of Tongariro National Park.