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.

Mike King's appearance at the piggery near Levin helped in the campaign to ban on sow crates.

Nana relishes time with her granddaughter at national kapa haka festival Te Matatini in Hastings.

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.

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

Hawke's Bay teen sentenced for causing crash that killed a young American.

Rod and reel found after angler disappears.

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

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.

Trans-Tasman Resources is proposing to mine 50 million tonnes of iron ore per year off the coast of Patea in south Taranaki. Made with funding from NZ On AIr.

Our forests and other land areas may be sucking up to 60 per cent more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than previously thought and we can likely thank our native trees for much of it.

Two police officers who stopped an Isuzu vehicle that was displaying 'sovereignty' registration plates in Kaitaia's main street on

A thief broke into Levin's Arohanui Hospice Shop, kicked down doors and stole their computer and a pair of large bolt cutters - "probably

A Levin family has been left homeless after a stopbank on their property burst its banks at 3.30am, sending a raging torrent of water