Two Levin schools have closed today because of a confirmed case of measles.

Police unsure how long body in Wellington flat lay undiscovered.

Eleven automatic weapons - including submachine guns and assault rifles - stolen from the gun safe.

Graham Hartley's dog mauled his six-year-old grandson but judge decided he had suffered enough.

A shed being used as a sleepout was damaged by fire in one of two suspicious blazes overnight.

Fleeing gang members hurled onions and a glass chopping board at police during a high-speed pursuit through the Waikato.

A vehicle on State Highway 1 north of Taihape appeared to have gone over a bank and caught fire last night.

Taxi driver thought he was going to die when young man robbed him gunpoint.

A group of hunters have been spoken to by police, and they are seeking another group of hunters believed to have been in the area at the time.

Tributes to "brave" and "inspiring" man who died after suffering a head injury during a half marathon.

Six people were injured, two critically, in a head-on crash this afternoon.

Staff member from prestigious private girls' school hit in the face by shards of rock after shots fired.

One person is dead after a crash between a car and truck in the Dome Valley.

Vehicle swerved to miss a school bus before colliding with another vehicle, police say.

An investigation is continuing to find a missing Horowhenua man last seen nearly two months ago.

Police are investigating the incident, in which the Te Aroha Primary School pupil was walking over a walk bridge near the Waikato town's wetlands.

A 20-metre fishing boat ran aground 30km off Whitianga on the southern end of Red Mercury Island.

Barry and Kristin Loggenberg ran from their vehicle to help after coming across crumpled wreck.

Woman knocked off her scooter by a car leaving a driveway.

An eye witness has described watching as a stolen car fleeing from police lost control, became airborne and smashed into a Hamilton house.

Police said one passenger has a chest injury and was being treated by ambulance in Napier.

Police divers have recovered the body of a man whose car plunged into the Waikato River yesterday.

A person has been flown to hospital with serious abdominal injuries after a head on collision in the East Cape area this morning.

Sandeep Kumar's victims trusted him to drive them home - instead he assaulted them.

22 full-time jobs to go from the university's education department in proposal revealed to staff.

Police are monitoring a group who claim to be setting up a Daktory in Whangarei - a paid club where members congregate to openly smoke cannabis.

Five logging truck crashes in less than a month across Northland deemed "totally unacceptable and intolerable", says transport industry leader.

Fergus Glen was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his brother Craig in 2003 after a long-term feud between the pair.

Two teenagers and one man have been arrested following an incident during which a police dog was kicked and an officer assaulted.

An American woman lost in the New Zealand bush for four freezing nights with her "most remarkable" mother credits her with saving her life.