A top doctor is urging pregnant women not to panic about high nitrate levels in Mid Canterbury water - despite earlier spotlighting the potentially fatal health risks.

A three-year old Canterbury girl is recovering in hospital after contracting a life-threatening disease while feeding a baby lamb.

A woman who died when she was hit by a train today near Ashburton had been the subject of a police pursuit earlier this morning.

Rikiau West-Pakuria has a smile that lights up the room. But as the 3-year-old lay in an...

A 15-month-old Whangarei girl is nursing 19 stitches to her face after being bitten by her uncle's...