Two teens in hospital with critical injuries after a horror Waikato crash were wearing seatbelts, a relative says. Friends were thrown from the vehicle.

Police say they are "preparing for the worst" after the discovery of a missing woman's car and say her work as an escort may have heightened her chances of coming to harm.

As the Emissions Trading Scheme begins, studies find a wealth of carbon locked up in the soil.

Three teenagers have been arrested over the murder of 74-year-old Donald Alfred Stewart in Hamilton last month.

Dave Dobbyn, who celebrated 30 years in music last year, is touring the majestic churches, chapels and cathedrals of New Zealand on the 2010 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour.

Police investigating the murder of 74-year-old Donald Alfred Stewart want to find the people who took the man's car from a ditch.

The brother of slain Wellington man Donald Stewart says his family is "shattered and in shock" over the way he died.

The driver of a car which hit a pedestrian in the Waikato on Tuesday night was not to blame for the man's death, police say.

Police have identified the body of a man found dead in his slippers in Hamilton on Sunday and are now trying to trace the movements of his car.