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.

A horror crash north of Tauranga which killed three people was "like a war zone", police say.

When Yannick Denis won tickets to see his favourite band play in Waihi tonight, there was one minor hitch.

Waihi gold miners have accused their Australian employer of Victorian work practices by making them take their breaks underground during 11-hour shifts.

The Coromandel is promising cheap RWC accommodation rates that will undercut Auckland packages reaching into the thousands.

Grant Dyson gets to the bottom of the Waihi opencast mining operation.