The Auckland man had been crab fishing with a line when he got in to trouble after 3pm.

Youths who used a stolen car in a ram-raid at a Hokianga grocery store fled empty-handed and crashed after the shop owner gave chase. Senior

The last weekend of holidays for most is shaping up as a mixed bag of fine spells and patchy showers as a front moves across the country.

A tramper has been rescued from the Tararuas after spending the night injured.

A bank manager was in a geocaching area when his car collided with a milk tanker.

A body found in Whangarei's Western Hills on Tuesday has been confirmed as that of missing man Kevin Charles Stewart. The 55-year-old

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

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.

Scientists are seeking to solve one of the most intriguing mysteries of the disease that's killing our kauri - why it's attracted to the native tree's scent like we're drawn to coffee.

Children were among a group of people who found a woman's body washed up on a beach in Napier yesterday.

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.

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.

A weak cold front will bring cloud, drizzle and showers to the country over the next few days but should clear in time for New Year celebrations.

A tiny native frog finally has a safe place to call home after a 20-year conservation battle.

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.