A man has been seriously injured after being hit by a car on a rural road near Katikati.

Searchers have confirmed that the body of a 21-year-old student missing at Lake Karapiro has been found.

While autumn starts this week, summery weather is expected to continue for a while.

A stray cat found in a loose leg-hold trap has had to be put down.

North Island Showjumping Champs in Tauranga 'fantastic', says organiser.

It's now thought nobody was home when a Mangakino home went up in flames this morning.

A body of a person killed in a car crash in a remote patch of Te Urewera is still in the car.

COMMENT: On a road trip to settle his youngest son into university and as he prepares for an empty nest, Andrew Dickens is proud of his country - and his boys.

'The Boss' Bruce Springsteen and the annual Pride Parade headlined a 'Super Saturday' for the City of Sails yesterday.

An ancient fossil of a giant penguin - discovered near Kawhia in 2006 and estimated to be 28 million years old - has become an official

A woman living near a property where five people were injured in a gang-related shooting heard glass smash and a man yelling 'help

Levin teenager Erin Buckland was stunned to meet and train with her Black Cap heroes in Wellington.

National kapa haka festival Te Matatini has started in Hastings today with an emotionally charged opening performance from Auckland

A motorcyclist who collided with a school bus south of Whangarei was flown to the Middlemore Hospital with spinal injuries. The crash

A 47-year-old Northland woman remains in a stable but critical condition following a serious vehicle crash on the Kamo bypass. The

I thank the committee for the opportunity to make a personal submission on voluntary euthanasia which I believe to be one of the most

11:09am: A gas main ruptured in Papamoa has been sealed off and is being repaired. Fire service spokesman Scott Osmond said a digger

Waiting for home help to arrive and worried that she would be left to fend for herself, 96-year-old Trixie Cottingham tried to make

A Napier man with a "chequered history" was sentenced to five months' home detention yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing thousands

A wharf cleaning machine and driver plunged 3m off a wharf into Whangarei Harbour during a night shift. The driver of the small tractor

A Tauranga school principal says substandard housing in the city is making children sick - with 11 of her pupils hospitalised within

Te Matatini - the meaning of it says it all. "The many faces". It was bestowed upon what had started out back in 1972 as simply

A Tauranga man caught importing ecstasy powder and tablets, who claimed he got the idea from watching a television programme, has

A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt.

Bad weather has forced the start of a major air show to be postponed, as much of the country braces for stormy conditions.

It seems garden tools are in hot demand - with a rise in reported thefts this summer.

The Pukehina man who fell asleep while driving and bowled a mother and her two young children as she pushed a pram has faced his penalty

A Whangarei craft house is worried after discovering a brothel by the same name has opened less than a kilometre away.

Police are investigating a fire that razed a home west of Kaikohe. The alarm was raised just before 11pm on Wednesday, on Jordan

Tropical downpours are drenching the north of the North Island as thunderstorms loom over Northland, Auckland and Waikato.