Auckland couple Jo Denvir and Daniel Nixon have been waiting three years for the adoption doors to Russia to reopen.

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.

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.

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.

An attack on a Hamilton police officer with a machete could have been a copycat of the machete attack on a Taihape officer, Howard Broad says.

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.

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