A Napier service station attendant was left with a gashed arm after a machete-wielding robber confronted him and lashed out on Monday

The search for a missing 18-year-old lost off the New Plymouth coast has continued today.

The male driver of a car wasn't hanging around after a spectacular crash.

"Stupid idiots" smashed through a fence, knocked bollards out of the ground and left skid marks across a Whangarei sporting field

Electronic tracking devices and surveillance cameras could be a way of stemming beehive thefts in Northland, an industry spokesman

Police have conceded the response to a woman who barricaded herself in her home and called 111 after being followed to her home did not meet the usual standard.

A repeat dope grower caught cultivating nearly $100,000 worth of cannabis commercially inside a garage has been jailed for more than

A team of investigators are no closer to sourcing Havelock North's water contamination. Further test results from Hastings, Flaxmere

Skiers and snowboarders flocked to sunny Mt Ruapehu in such great numbers today that the access road to Whakapapa ski area had to be closed.

A chance intervention has continued the remarkable good fortunes of a plucky ewe that was dubbed "New Zealand's luckiest lamb". Lucky

Communities are questioning the placement of high-risk sexual offenders near children after two cases involving three separate abusers emerged yesterday.

Port of Tauranga posted a 2.3 per cent decline in full-year profit, partly reflecting an accounting change but also a sharp decline in log volume.

The crash is affecting southbound lanes near the Penrose over bridge.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has confirmed a Government-initiated independent inquiry into the Havelock North water contamination.

Maximum temperatures sprang into the late teens in much of the country, and more good weather is heading our way.

Hundreds of baskets have been stolen from Pak'nSave Palmerston North - and it appears some thieves are making their getaways on mobility scooters.

A 54-year-old woman has been attacked from behind, dragged and had cash taken from her bag during an early morning walk to a Whangarei

Fire crews are currently at the scene of a large house fire in Rotorua.

Mark James Lang was an engineer and used his skills and knowledge to construct one of the biggest clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in the country.

A logging truck driver will go through "intensive training" before he returns to the road after a truck rollover in Northland, says

A mentor for troubled young Maori in Whangarei "blotted his copybook" by being involved in a night-time punch-up with the occupants

Northland is getting its first fixed speed camera. This month, a camera will be installed on State Highway 1, just south of Kaiwaka

It's up to the people to decide whether Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule keeps his job in October, following the largest outbreak of waterborne

All Havelock North schools have now closed because of the gastro outbreak with up to half the rolls sick.

Cafes and restaurants in Havelock North are also feeling the effects of the gastro bug with tables and chairs sitting empty.

The board chairman of a Northland school which lost several buildings in a fire says it is "awesome" knowing the school will be getting

Napier MP Stuart Nash called yesterday for bottled water companies to "step up and provide a couple of truckloads of water to the

A shabby ute is being used to protest suburban snobbery just north of Wellington.

A woman who fell from a horse was picked up by the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter and airlifted to hospital today.

Leanne Prichard and her daughter, 16-year-old Bella, can't wait to start their new life in New Zealand in the perfect girls' pad - House 1 from The Block.