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Refinery billowing thick black smoke
Black smoke caused by fault in Marsden Point Oil Refinery is allowed under Refining NZ's resource consent.
Black smoke caused by fault in Marsden Point Oil Refinery is allowed under Refining NZ's resource consent.
School says ban will stay until there is certainty around new Health and Safety at Work Act comes into force.
Three vessels came to grief in bar crossings during Easter - leading a regional authority to warn that crossing bars is the most dangerous activity.
AMAZING PHOTOS: Boat engulfed and flipped over at the Coromandel's Tairua Bar.
A man who tried to steal chicken from behind the counter at a Hamilton KFC led police on a car and foot chase.
Morning cloud and a few showers will greet most of the country this morning, but the rain is expected to clear later this afternoon.
A North Island farmer is on the mend after being flung more than 3m into the air by a rampaging steer.
Four-wheel drive towing a caravan collided with a truck in Warkworth.
WATCH: Principal believes his pupils have been ripped off after counterfeit for school gala discovered.
Miriyana Alexander checks out a luxury lodge that's luring celebs to New Zealand.
A 50-year-old-man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being stung by bees north of Auckland.
New Plymouth's Pukekura Park is rocking again to diverse sounds from across the globe as the annual WOMAD music festival kicks off in Taranaki.
Police are searching for a man who was believed to be holed up in a house after a serious assault.
Prolific peeping Tom caught crawling into the roof of Burger King restaurant to watch women on the toilet.
"There is a steady increase of women being abducted, tied up, put in the boot of cars, taken away to the bush or the beach, or their partners having utensils to bury them."
A man has described the horrifying moment a diver was dragged up on the beach at Mathesons Bay suffocating and "foaming from the mouth and nose".
One person has been killed after being crushed between a container and a truck at Mount Maunganui.
A man has died after a car failed to stop at in intersection and collided with another vehicle.
A boating trip has ended in tragedy after a man drowned when the alloy pontoon boat he was on flipped in the water north of Napier.
A police officer shot in the hand during a 22-hour stand-off in the Bay of Plenty on Wednesday has been discharged from hospital.
A man alleged to have fled a fatal crash in which he is thought to have been the driver has been interviewed by police.
Former police negotiator Lance Burdett told Newstalk ZB things could "turn on a knife edge" during armed stand-offs.
The gunman involved in the incident is reportedly willing to surrender if he can have the support of his friends and family with him.
Officers at the Onepu siege will not be letting the fact their mates have been shot cloud their judgment.
Woman who died after escaping from car boot while bound and gagged had been charged with possessing methamphetamine.