The Govt hopes a new state house will be a heartening example for first-home owners.

Police are investigating a possible attempt to influence the Super City election in which nearly 90 voters have been enrolled as living in two houses.

He was a little adventurer who would "body-slam" his mother to wake her up but he was too young to know the danger of playing in driveways.

Police say the child, thought to be aged about two years, was hit by a vehicle in Otara at about 1.20pm.

Down the southern motorway, entire state house suburbs were created by the Government.

Barely a day after the end of a Queen's Birthday weekend with the lowest road toll in 54 years, two people - one a 3-year-old boy - died in separate crashes.

A child has been killed in a bus crash near the Northland town of Kaeo and another person has died after a crash in Canterbury late today.

A small stencil used by Sir Edmund Hillary to mark crates for one of his expeditions is likely to go on show in the Hillary family home.

A bus passenger was taken to hospital after she was hit in the head by an object thrown through the bus window.

After being bashed repeatedly in the head, bus driver Sudeep Singh says he was asked if he could drive his vehicle back to its depot.

Labour and Maori Party strongholds will be hit if prisoners are stopped from voting, a prison reform group says.

Students, office workers and retired people flocked to a South Auckland house to buy cannabis from a mother of five children under seven.

Many young Pacific offenders in South Auckland are "chameleons" who attend church after committing a crime