The Orewa College board of trustees pleads guilty to charges laid against the school after a fatal boiler-room blast last June.

A phone call by Emily Cotton's anxious mother probably saved the little girl's life after she became ill with a rare disorder.

Name suppression was today lifted for a woman accused of murdering a man found dead in Orewa at the weekend.

Rare giant kokopu, which in their infancy make up part of the group known as whitebait, are to be reintroduced to Auckland waterways.

The PM has left the door open for Labour to work with the Government on a solution to the problematic foreshore and seabed law.

Alan Gundry says he was just protecting his family and never wanted his mate Gene Atkins to die.

A jury has found Alan Gundry not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the shooting of friend Gene Atkins during an Orewa dinner party that went badly wrong.

A man fatally shot a friend who had had become violent towards his partner after a drinking session, a court has heard.