Home to horses, pigs, sheep, cats, dogs and a cow - plus the odd human - this pretty property offers the classic country dream.

At first glance Karyn Dumper thought the shotgun pointed at her husband was nothing more than a toy. Then the shots rang out.

A high school student has undergone surgery after suffering severe burns from a technology class assignment gone wrong this morning.

Friends mourn the loss of a committed youth counsellor who died in a hang gliding accident.

The grieving family of a teenager killed in a high-speed, head-on crash say they will never get over his death.

The jury has been selected for the trial of a man accused of deliberately driving his car into two other vehicles, killing a young woman.

One man was killed and another critically injured after their cars collided head-on on a bend south of Auckland.