MidCentral District Health Board has released a damning audit report of Palmerston North's Rosa A Lea Rest Home, which it closed last month.

Police have identified a motorcyclist who was killed after a police chase last night ended in a high-speed crash.

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

A teenager whose night of drinking ended with the death of his best friend in a road crash has been jailed for five years.

It is too early to say whether a fire that killed a woman and a child overnight is suspicious, police say.