A post-mortem on teenager Cem Erbay, who went missing in the Coromandel early on New Year's Day, has found his death was not suspicious and he most likely died as a result of a fall.

A post-mortem examination of Cem Erbay will be carried out today, say police.

A nine-year-old Auckland boy survived going over a 20m waterfall in Queensland.

Authorities are urging parents to stay within arm's reach of their children around water.

Some unlikely employers are turning to students for help.

Young people, particularly girls, drinking excessively and putting themselves at risk are concerning police.

The 8-year-old boy who fell into a geothermal pool as hot as 100C on Boxing Day has died.

The two men arrested for attacking a police officer on the East Coast are facing more serious charges of threatening to kill him after appearing in Gisborne District Court today.

Police have told parents to keep track of their children after finding a girl, 14, having allegedly drug-fuelled sex near a beach overnight.

A Wairoa policeman attacked by two men in Mahia on Boxing Day is keen to get back to his job, Police Minister Judith Collins says.

A Wairoa policeman became the fourth officer to be attacked on the job this month after he stopped two men suspected of carrying out a series of burglaries on the East Coast.

A Northland police officer has been hit over the head with his own baton after being called out to deal with a drunken fight.

She is the Christmas angel who wanted to help another 9-year-old girl in suffering.

This is the face of the latest New Zealand child to die as a result of alleged abuse. Five-year-old Sahara Jayde Baker-Koro was found dead in her bed in Napier early on Tuesday.

A man accused of attacking a police officer was in 2005 being hailed as a success story in a school bullying project.

Donna Fleming agonises over the morality of perpetuating the myth of the jolly fat guy in red.