Two men have been arrested following an incident where shots were fired and a vehicle rammed in the Coromandel this afternoon.

The distinctive 1965 Chrysler 300C, registration DSA652, was stolen overnight from a Palmerston North property.

Motorists travelling through Horowhenua are facing a slow tip because of surface flooding this afternoon.

Revered Maori leader Sir Graham Latimer was farewelled by hundreds of mourners at a funeral in Northland yesterday.

The Sky Tower is glowing orange tonight until Sunday, in support of Kiwis doing the 40-hour famine to raise money for World Vision this weekend.

Alcohol, speed and an overloaded vehicle contributed to the severity of an accident that killed Brethren members near Dargaville on Monday.

Emergency Services have successfully rescued a horse trapped by dangerously rising floodwaters in the Otaki River.

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Two women have admitted methamphetamine charges after a police raid in which more than $20,000 cash was seized.

The road between Raglan and Hamilton is blocked tonight after a fatal road crash.

When Lee Rata was severely beaten last year, Seddon Beazley took the opportunity to further his standing with the Mongrel Mob. However, his mother knew different.

A Whangarei steel company is thrilled at winning a Convention Centre steel contract, which has already started providing new jobs for Northlanders, with more on the way.

Napier MP Stuart Nash says he has lost confidence in the region's police district commander.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has launched an investigation into the deaths of three horses at Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse on Monday.

The man who died after falling while climbing Mt Taranaki was a French national.

A new political party has formed and is vying for the older vote.

The Waikato policeman who escorted a heavily pregnant woman and her husband to Hamilton has been congratulated by his boss for doing the right thing.

Three members of the Plymouth Brethren church were among the fatalities over the long weekend.

The truck driver accused of ploughing his truck into a motorway overbridge, causing hours of gridlock in Auckland, was excused from appearing in court today.

Nazi concentration camp survivor Bob Narev has spent his life trying to warn people about the dangers of standing by and letting others be cruel.

Kiwi remembers the day his dying grandfather took him to see Muhammad Ali.

Two dramatic videos have been released showing how Northland's forests are collapsing due to chronic underfunding of the Department of Conservation and lack of pest control.

The two-year-old girl fatally shot in her South Auckland home was farewelled.

Eleven people have died on our roads up until midnight, the highest number of deaths for a Queen's Birthday weekend since 1989.

An autistic man has been locked in a tiny, isolated area of a mental health unit for five years despite top-level warnings his treatment breaches human rights.

Showers are on their way with a northeast flow spreading across the country from tomorrow.