A Nelson teenager has been arrested over a vicious attack in which a man was left for seven hours in a pool of his own blood.

The manufacturers of the Bombardier say yesterday's Blenheim incident was the third one of its kind worldwide in less than a week.

A keg of beer was pulled from the wreckage of a sports car which crashed head-on into a milk tanker, killing two teenagers.

Members of the public found a toddler, aged 20 months, floating in a pond in Nelson's Queens Gardens this morning.

A judge has reserved his decision in the case of a pilot seeking his job back after he was fired for drinking and having sex with a young flight attendant the night before a flight.