Exclusive: Eight people have died on the roads so far this year in police pursuits.

A Specsavers survey involving around 1000 parents from across the country revealed that up to 58 per cent of children under the age of 16 had never had their eyes tested.

There were 3796 police pursuits in 2017, which equates to around 10 per day across the country.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin stood unified on the topic of alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 US elections.

Examining the stories of the first recorded fatalities on our roads.

First car driver to die in New Zealand was a South Canterbury farmer's wife in 1906.

With jails bursting at the seams, the govt wants to slash numbers, will Kiwis be on board?

Boeing at the weekend revealed more details of the concept plane which would fly at up to 5800km/h, 1.6km a second and two and a half times the speed of the Concorde.

The former cricket all-rounder had been undergoing treatment for bowel cancer.

Fu Wah had intended to bring in up to 200 tradies to finish the $200 million Park Hyatt hotel.

Animation Research Ltd came up with the idea and shares its two-year-old concept of a 40-metre-high pou at Wynyard Point.

200,000 Kiwi kids could be battling their way through school struggling to see.

Fu Wah gets approval from Immigration NZ to bring in 138 not 200 tradies from China.

It's been a year since Justine Damond phone police for assistance and was fatally shot.

"In the ED environment, maybe we're going to have to have policemen on site."

A doctors’ union thinks there should be zero tolerance policies around verbal and physical abuse, and for drugs and alcohol.

"I realised: I can't move, I'm on my own, no one really knows that I'm here."

Claire Nelson tells her story after being trapped for three days under the hot sun and badly injured in a US desert.

Hauraki Breakfast's Matt Heath and Jeremy Wells compare famous New Zealanders to popular pie flavours.

A countdown of the best albums that come out in the first half of 2018.

A small bottle was found in poisoning victim Charlie Rowley's house.

Remuera's space-defying Tardis home for sale.

Auckland Prison opened today, months late.

A look Inside our most secure new jail.

Māngere residents worry wealthy outsiders may snap up the pick of the 10,000 new Government homes planned for the suburb.

An Auckland family-run detox centre is helping addicts find the path to recovery.

A countdown of the best podcasts to come out in the first half of 2018.

A new "sensory garden" gives prisoners a secure space where they can sit quietly, reflect or talk but most of all enjoy living plants, a waterfall on a rock feature and a green mound of artificial grass.

Home values in the town of 6800 people jumped more than 25 per cent over past year.

A countdown of the best tv shows that come out in the first half of 2018.