Police are looking for a teenager who failed to return home to Te Awamutu after spending the afternoon in Hamilton.

Armed police and negotiators have swooped on a Palmerston North property after a person fire an air rifle from a house.

About 30 Norfolk pine trees planted along Whanganui's Seafront Road reserve last week have been dug up and relocated after vandals

A former Taranaki business association treasurer has pleaded guilty to taking $25,000 in cheques for personal use. A plea of guilty

Float the idea of a dip in Whangarei's Town Basin and most people will respond with some variation of "ew .... bad idea". But that's

An asteroid discovered by a former Whanganui woman now has an official name. Jennie McCormick, born and educated in Whanganui, made

A businessman at the centre of a kidnapping and violence trial has admitted using methamphetamine with his alleged captors.

A Northland man has appeared in court on a charge of rape and two of unlawful sexual connection with a female. He also faces a charge

A Taradale businessman has been sentenced to nine months' home detention for multiple tax evasion offences, despite having reimbursed

Squally thunderstorms and heavy rain are forecast to hit the North Island overnight, with a severe weather watch in place.

A Massey University lecturer has been sentenced on a charge of dangerous driving causing injury.

Atrial fibrillation is one of New Zealand's fastest growing forms of heart disease. It is a type of irregular heart rhythm that causes

A Hamilton designer has been awarded two 2016 National ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards, announced at an award ceremony in

A coroner has heard that the father of a woman involved in a car crash, which killed a Napier kindergarten teacher, made a 111 call because she was suicidal.

Hamilton City Council is offering a rare chance to see how the city treats the millions of litres of wastewater which flows from the

A Whangarei Lotto player is $333,333 better off after a ticket sold at Onerahi Bookshop & Lotto won a share of Lotto First Division

Guy Fawkes can go off with a bang in dry skies tomorrow. Despite a showery start to the weekend for the whole country, the weather

Not wanting to bother people with his problems Paul Keesing would take pain relief - this is what led to his death as he spoke out too late.

Two women have died in separate Hawke's Bay crashes just hours apart.

A 16-year-old male was arrested in central Whangarei after he smashed the front window of a central city clothing business. Senior

Digging up the body of a young Christchurch father five years after his death would be a "significant breach" of Maori custom, a court

About 30 police and Far North search and rescue volunteers and helicopter support scoured a Northland bush track for a missing tramper

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

Thunder storms dropping hail up to the size of 20c coins are hammering parts of Auckland.

A young man with multiple convictions for failing to stop has admitted leading Whangarei police on a pursuit and reaching speeds of

A local businessman said his wife heard a "crack".

Four trucks had been sent to fire in Hikurangi this afternoon.

Bids for a yellow Mini for sale on TradeMe which stars in a remake of the classic Kiwi film Goodbye Pork Pie have reached nearly $25,000.

An unseasonable cold snap will be felt in much of the country over the weekend as a front moves over the North Island.

A Taranaki couple have been sentenced to nearly three years imprisonment for a horrendous case of neglect towards elderly woman.