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Surviving the homecoming
When I heard John Glennie's "Gidday Blossom" on the phone this week, I knew nothing had changed.

Woman trapped in crashed plane
Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.

Search for skier called off
The search for teh missing 19-year-old skier in the Southern Alps has been called off.

Max unbroken after 90m cliff fall
When 5-year-old Max Christie slipped out of sight 90 metres down a rocky Whakapapa cliff his parents feared they wouldn't find him alive.

Second big fall on slopes of Mt Ruapehu
Just a day after a man's nasty 60m tumble, an Australian man is lucky to be alive after a big fall in the same area.

Climber survives 60m mountain fall
An Auckland climber fell "like a rag doll" after slipping while decending from Mt Ruapehu's Dome Summit.

Kiwi yachtie's Pacific nightmare
Alex Macdonald says he was kept in Tongan police custody for five days, accused of killing his skipper.

Australian minister rescued alive
Missing Victorian politician found alive after mountain rescue operation.

Kiwi in tragic mystery at sea
It's a story that reads like the plot of a movie thriller - lost in the Pacific.

Sailing holiday turned into 'voyage from hell'
A Canterbury man's holiday voyage turned into a trip from hell last week when the skipper fell overboard.