The jury returned its verdicts yesterday in the trial of two men accused of murdering Craig Rippon. In the High Court at Whanganui

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition after colliding with a car just north of Te Aroha this afternoon.

KiwiRail is reportedly looking into whether it can ferry people and freight from Wellington to Lyttelton.

Wellington retailers are likely to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in the wake of the earthquakes and terrible weather.

Quake-ravaged regions are bracing for a fresh weather onslaught with heavy rain and bitterly cold gales set to batter central New Zealand in the next 48 hours.

A Hastings lawyer has been charged with stealing almost $80,000 of client funds.

An irate Whangarei businessman fed up with repeated break-ins at his mechanical workshop is planning a sleepover on site to catch

A woman was freed after the car she was in plunged 35m into a river on State Highway 5 yesterday afternoon. Fire fighters had to

Civil Defence said the national support effort will continue tomorrow following Monday morning's 7.5 magnitude earthquake near Kaikoura.

A mother was subject to domestic violence for 15 years before she sought support from the Women's Refuge and fled her abusive husband. "My

Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a rupture of a northeast-striking fault t, but this may be a more complex event.

Two men who showed every sign of intending to rob a Kaitaia service station in the early hours of Thursday morning were spectacularly

Police are yet to name a 65-year-old man who died in a four-vehicle crash near Mata on Sunday afternoon. The collision occurred on

Time stood still for the Taradale Memorial Clock Tower on Monday morning, just minutes after the magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit, with

Wellington CBD is open for business, but workers should check with their employers before heading into town for work.

A 100-year-old woman pulled alive from the rubble of her farmhouse had lived on the homestead for 64 years. Margaret Edgar was asleep

Government forces including transport ship Canterbury will be mobilised to get about 1000 tourists out of earthquake hit Kaikoura.

Anyone with damage should lodge claims with the Earthquake Commission within three months.

Two people have died and several people suffered non-fatal heart attacks following the main 7.5 magnitude earthquake in North Canterbury.

Heavy rain and wind is forecast to batter the upper South Island and lower North Island this afternoon.

It's beginning to feel like summer in some parts of the country, with pohutukawa bursting into bloom. "People have been getting a

A person is in a moderate to serious condition after a gnarly car crash in Auckland.

A series of land slips forced residents to evacuate their homes as the capital was lashed by wild weather yesterday.

At least five homes have been evacuated and a main road has been closed after wild weather struck in the Wellington region.

As his frustration grew, Dustin La Mont went to ever more extreme measures to tackle his noisy neighbours.

The wet and windy spring weather looks set to continue but the warm summery temperatures are coming to an end this weekend.

Two people have been seriously injured in a road accident near Petone.

Beatrice (Betty) Erica Wakely, the last surviving female member of the RSA in Dannevirke who served overseas during WWII, has passed

The Parklee Bullride at the Central Hawke's Bay A and P Show tomorrow is set to go ahead after the government announced rodeos would

A Whangarei school has apologised to the family of a boy who banged his head on a wall while being disciplined by a teacher who has