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

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

A shortage of food caused by the drought is forcing some of Northland's normally nocturnal kiwi to forage in broad daylight. Kerikeri

The warm summer has been a good one for boaties in Napier but it has also seen a slight spike in thefts of marine gear. Among 11

A Tauranga mother feared her 3-year-old child had been snatched when he went missing at Bayfair for almost half an hour. Mum-of-two

A man who held up McDonald's in Whanganui with a knife has been given time behind bars. And his partner who swiped a getaway car

New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.

A bush fire near a Taupo native forest is well under control but it will take crews another few days to make sure it's completely out.

Two serious house fires have broken out in the North Island.

A large amount of offal spilled onto State Highway 2 west of Wairoa.

Police and the SPCA are on the trail of a driver seen dragging a dog at speed down a Northland highway. South African Werner Roos

A fire that ripped through a popular Rotorua restaurant last night is not being treated as suspicious. The fire was at Bistro 1284

A Hastings man has admitted to stealing from a church to try pay off a drug debt. Jonathan Langley Dine, 25, pleaded guilty when

Two dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a pet goat on Victoria Ave more than a week ago were still being held in the Tararua District

An elderly Tamatea couple and others who live on their street are feeling so intimidated by youths roaming around and stealing things

One of the survivors of the 1997 Raurimu massacre is set to release a book about his life and his terrifying ordeal at the hands of gunman Stephen Anderson.

An Whangarei engineering firm has been ordered to pay more than $70,000 after an employee injured an index finger which had to be

Rural firefighters are running out of water with the Tikokino Fire Station needing a new pump for the first time in 15 years to reach

Tributes are pouring in for the young woman killed in a car crash last week. Emergency services were called to the scene on Te Aute