Wayne Thompson cycles the Karangahake Gorge section of Nga Haerenga and finds marvels of a bygone era.

If modern life is a battlefield, then everyday etiquettes are the mines hidden across it, many laid where you least expect them. So why, asks Greg Dixon, do people not tread more carefully?

Two young brothers found in open water yesterday had no VHF, no GPS, didn't say where they were going and didn't know how to use the old flares they had on board.

79-year-old trapped for up to 24 hours with arm stuck against electric bar heater.

A former MP is accused, with three others, of being involved in a $1.8 million swindle of Auckland sports clubs, a children's charity, and various companies set up between 2003 and 2005.