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.

A group of beachgoers scrambled to save four people from drowning at a notorious North Island beach.

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.

Two people had to be rescued from a vehicle that was left hanging sideways from a tree down a sheer bank after it crashed off a rural Coromandel road yesterday afternoon.

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.

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.

Coromandel township locals are appealing against a High Court decision giving the go-ahead for a supermarket development in the middle of the town's heritage protection zone.

The food on the Hauraki cycle trail was worth dismounting for, says Nadia Lim.

Andy Pickering finds action and relaxation aplenty at Coromandel's Whitianga.

A 3.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Coromandel Peninsula this morning.