A summer boating holiday ended yesterday in a cloud of black smoke and two burned-out shells on the side of the road.

Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen a man and a woman walking away after a man was stabbed in Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula on New Year's Day to come forward.

Police believe they have found the body of missing Auckland man Cem Erbay, 19, in the Coromandel.

Queues of New Year's Eve traffic are beginning to build around the country.

Two people were hurt when a light plane crashed into a sewage pond at the end of a runway at Thames Aerodrome this morning.

The host of US TV show The Amazing Race is joining the campaign to save a pristine Coromandel beach from development.

A former All Black has lost another round in a legal battle with the SBS Bank over a million dollar debt on a Coromandel property development.

Anamarie Ewins wants to deliver another sporting milestone for New Zealand and become the first woman to row solo across the Tasman.

Police used a taser on a 46-year-old man who was inflicting injuries on himself at a Coromandel Peninsula settlement today.

A man has drowned after a bank gave way and his car rolled into a canal near Thames.

Hundreds of students gathered to farewell their 16-year-old mate "Webby", who died after binge-drinking vodka at the weekend.