Family devastated after their new house burns down just a week after they moved it onto their land.

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.

Police confirm the Southern Motorway is now open following a crash which earlier closed two southbound lanes.

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.

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.

The American mother and daughter lost in the bush for four days spelled out the word "help" in a bush clearing.

A mother and daughter who became lost in a North Island bush had to huddle together for warmth and ration their supplies after the terrain became impenetrable.

The car driven by a mother and daughter missing since Wednesday has been found at an entrance to a hiking track in the Tararua range.

First it was White Island's crater lake that was making scientists sit up - and now it is the one atop Mt Ruapehu.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

The trial of Kamal Reddy has heard that cash was being withdrawn from a woman's account after she had disappeared.

Lifeguards made 581 rescues at beaches between Ahipara in the Far North and Raglan in the Waikato this summer.

The eruption on the volcanic island appears to have deposited material over north side of the crater floor.

Dargaville High School principal David Kenneth Bargh has been convicted and fined for lurking on the property of a female teacher at night.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges confirmed work will commence this year along the ill-fated stretch between Pokeno and the State Highway 25 intersection.