In scenic grounds, offset by lime and olive groves, this pair of rural properties could well be heaven-sent.

The national drowning toll for the first two months of the year rose to 35, after 15 drownings in February.

One Canadian tourist is dead and another seriously injured after a car and truck collided near Hamilton today.

Here's more to add to your gig diary - though you'd be in a fairly unique demographic if you were after tickets to all of this lot.

A runabout reported missing off the Coromandel coast may not have logged its return and was probably never in trouble, say police.

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.