Rare November snow is forecast for the South Island with road snowfall warnings issued for some alpine passes.

Mainfreight managing director Don Braid says he will take on more trucks and ships in the lead-up to what he expects to be record

A man on the run from authorities and considered dangerous left a message on the Northland police Facebook page next to his own mugshot

A Northland dairy owner hit on the head with a tyre iron during an attempted robbery says nine months' home detention for his attacker

Forty-five people, mostly over 70 were admitted to hospital with campylobacter a Hawke's Bay District Health Board update reveals. The

A police officer has told the crown at the Wanganui High Court yesterday Kevin Madams "bragged" to police about "smashing the prez." Tyrone

Three runners have started to carry Samuel Gibson's legacy across the country as they run from Hawera to Havelock North. Neil Wagstaff

Taku Manawa Kara was helping her mother move house when the car she was driving left the road, killing her in a crash.

A 33-year-old Whangarei man described as a "menace on the roads" has been jailed for four months and banned from driving for a year

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

Vicky Johnson counted her lucky stars when a large tree fell just five minutes after she biked past late Saturday night. Ms Johnson

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.

Relief could be on the way.

From her kitchen window, a witness at the High Court in Whanganui told the jury yesterday she saw Craig Rippon attacked "with rage

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