The Tongariro Crossing seems to agree with energetic children a lot more than weary adults, finds Helen van Berkel.

Herald reporter Beck Vass explores Tongariro National Park, a World Heritage site.

MidCentral District Health Board has released a damning audit report of Palmerston North's Rosa A Lea Rest Home, which it closed last month.

Police have identified a motorcyclist who was killed after a police chase last night ended in a high-speed crash.

Four people, including a child, have been rescued after spending all night clinging for dear life to their capsized dinghy.

Wanganui can be spelled with or without an 'h', the Government ruled today.

Wanganui is to be given its "h" back in a compromise under which Govt agencies will have to follow the new spelling but others will have a choice.

Steven Joyce says the toll on the Transmission Gully route will be no more than $3.

The long-awaited Transmission Gully route has been approved as part of a $2.2 billion upgrade of State Highway 1 from Wellington to Levin.

An 11-year-old boy was trapped in a crashed car with his dead grandfather for 20 minutes yesterday.

Blood, fat and discarded pieces of butchered animals were spread 15km on SH2 after a tailgate opened on a truck.

The PM has left the door open for Labour to work with the Government on a solution to the problematic foreshore and seabed law.