A 23-year-old man arrested over the violent kidnapping of an Auckland woman has escaped custody.

A woman was kidnapped and driven from Auckland to the Coromandel last night, with the offender assaulting her several times during the ordeal before she escaped.

Ease into tramping with an overnighter at the Pinnacles Hut in the Coromandel, writes Andrew Laxon.

For a fantastic surf or swim, Waihi Beach is the place to be, says Elisabeth Easther.

A man was seriously injured when he fell six metres while canyoning in Coromandel yesterday.

Quick-thinking locals saved the life of a young man whose people mover vehicle went off the road and dropped down a bank into a stream in a remote area of the Coromandel Peninsula, police say.

A very premature baby made a dramatic arrival into the world when he was born with little warning on a remote school paddock in the Coromandel.

Elisabeth Easther falls in love with a slice of coastal paradise.

Tairua represents unspoilt Coromandel beauty, writes Elisabeth Easther.

Not too long ago in Whangamata, locals near the beach might have peered out their kitchen window and seen a little girl walking down the street, lugging a surfboard twice her size.

A private lodge in Coromandel was badly damaged by a large fire early this morning.

A kiwi which was savaged by a dog near Coromandel has been euthanised at Auckland Zoo.

A man is dead after being involved in an alcohol-fuelled brawl at a Waikato property yesterday.

A diver is recuperating at the Devonport Naval Base after suffering decompression sickness during a dive.

A young man is being spoken to by police after he allegedly put a pipe bomb into a rural Coromandel letterbox last night.

The surf lifesaving season kicked off without any serious incidents at Hot Water Beach, but lifeguards there fear that won't last long.

A woman who suffered a suspected spinal injury while playing touch rugby was taken to hospital by rescue helicopter last night.

While you're in the 'hood check out some other finds.

Donna McIntyre escapes the city on a campervan holiday.

A police car was rammed by a stolen a vehicle during a high-speed pursuit in Coromandel this morning.