Police are hunting a group of men who assaulted and robbed a 58-year-old male at home in Napier this morning.

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.

Family relieved the siege has ended peacefully

Former police negotiator Lance Burdett told Newstalk ZB things could "turn on a knife edge" during armed stand-offs.

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.

Ten-month-old Elliott Nicholas Allen Whitehead drowned last night at a house in Putaruru.

Cyclists performed a "chain of survival" around their cycling buddy after he fell from his bike on a busy Auckland road.

Video footage of a police chase in Napier last night shows a white Toyota Hilux leading a long train of police cars and interested drivers.

Ambulance staff attended but were not able to revive the baby.

The parents of baby Tim, born on the side of an Auckland motorway this morning, have described how the city's slow traffic stalled their trip to hospital.

Two Wellingtonians have described their desperate efforts to save a distressed diver off the city's south coast.

At least two people have been hurt in a crash involving a car and a tractor.

A major police search which could be linked to the violent death of Thai woman Jindarat Prutsiriporn is underway at a property in Mangere.

A man in his 20s has been cut through the abdominal from a boat propeller after falling out of a vessel at Muriwai Beach.

Police have concerns for the safety of an Auckland teenager who was last seen at Britomart station.

A Thai temple spokesman says the Thai community is in fear following reports that the death of a 50-year-old Thai woman may be gang related.

Northland's multi-million dollar luxurious Kingfish Lodge - which has played host to a string of Hollywood A-listers - is on the market.

A complicated picture is beginning to emerge of kidnapping victim Jindarat Prutsiriporn, a woman loved by friends but with links to a dark criminal drug world.

Motorcyclist on suspended learner's licence was wearing just shorts. "All his bones and organs would be just mush" if he crashed, say police.

WATCH: Father filming his daughter swimming at Papamoa Beach has captured just how close she was to a shark.

Thanks to one tidy Kiwi's handy detective work, someone is about to receive the surprise of their life in the mail.

The mother of an 18-month-old boy who died after being hit by a car outside their home was busy making school lunches, when he snuck out the ranch slider.

Traffic is backed up from Newmarket to Otahuhu following a crash on Auckland's southern motorway.

Elderly man's badly decomposed body found in upmarket apartment block opposite Parliament.