A young woman was pulled from the Whanganui River yesterday after jumping from the Cobham Bridge. Police said the woman had climbed

Fire so dangerous in early stages, rural fire boss says he wouldn't have let his own firefighters near it.

The Corrections Department has come under fire for a "remarkable absence" of written records that led to the dismissal of a guard

Big swells predicted to surge up the eastern side of New Zealand from Kaikoura to north of Mahia Peninsula

A man has been charged with burglary and police are trying to find owners for his hoard of alleged stolen property after a chance

Those looking to cool off at a popular Napier swimming spot are having to share the water with swarms of jellyfish. Reports of jellyfish

New Zealand is in for a wet day with just the northern tip of the country resembling summer.

A search and rescue operation is underway for a man who's been swept out to sea at Lake Ferry in the Wairarapa this afternoon.

Police are looking for an armed man who robbed a Ngaruawahia dairy today.

Kevin Charles Stewart, 55, has not been seen since leaving his cabin at Whangarei caravan park on December 7.

Bay of Islands the place to be for summer sun today

Lynn Paterson has been paddling for 130 days around the coast of New Zealand.

A Northland couple who won $5.3 million on Lotto and Powerball have spoken about their plans for their win.

A fire that came within a metre of a ute and a few metres of a Kerikeri home was a blaze waiting to happen, the town's fire chief

The Bay of Islands has come up trumps again in the latest controlled purchase operation, where 16-year-old volunteers attempted to

How narcissistic are Kiwis?

A person suffered head injuries after coming off their bike on a mountain biking track in the central North Island today.

A new initiative is bringing inmates and their families closer together by teaching fathers how to be fathers.

One person has died and another two been badly injured in separate crashes as holiday traffic queues across the North Island.

A Whangarei man has been jailed for exposing himself inside a preschool and outside a primary school before offending again within

Twelve hundred homes could be packed into land originally set aside for sports fields and business developments in Papamoa. The 39

Coastguard New Zealand has alerted boaties in Northland to keep an eye out for a father and daughter sailing to the Bay of Islands

A kayaker out for an evening paddle found a body in the Waikato River this evening.

Motorists heading out of Wellington face a nightmare two-hour gridlock north of the capital.

A man with a history of failing to stop for authorities and who led Whangarei police on a pursuit that reached speeds of 180km/h could serve his sentence outside prison.

An award-winning Whangarei restaurant has shut down after nine months of roadworks that its owner said crippled the business.

Bad weather is starting to hit the South Island.

A win in the Supreme Court has paved the way for a Northland homeowner to continue her leaky building case against the Whangarei District

A seabird expert has described the discovery of mutilated flesh-footed shearwaters in sand dunes as "barbaric and completely unacceptable''.

Cyclists will be able to pedal from one coast to the other this summer with the Twin Coast Cycle Trail Pou Herenga Tai all but complete. The