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Driver may have 'fallen asleep' on bus carrying school kids before crash into tree

'There were a lot of walking wounded.'

Police investigating after man seen kicking, punching girls at Avondale College

Confronting footage showed two girls holding a pupil down while the man kicked her.

Colin McCahon painting mystery: How a $225 auction 'sleeper' sold for $31,000

Did someone just get the art bargain of the century? Experts are unsure.

First XV rankings: Will there be a shift in the southern power balance?

Some unlikely names are looking to upset the usual big names. Mike Thorpe reports.

'Critical investment': NZ urged to electrify 6 million machines

New Zealand has 10 million fossil-fuelled machines, with 84% having electric alternatives.

Airfares too high? Take the bus, InterCity says ahead of new electric bus launch

A new electric city bus is coming. Long-haul EV buses may be viable in a year or so too.

Housing and cultural identity: Major new study reveals Aucklanders' concerns

What will it take for Auckland to become the global innovator city leaders want it to be?

'It's their first language': Why I raise my hearing children with sign language

Rosie Solouota became deaf after contracting measles as a baby - her children can hear.

Social media ban: Act blocks National’s bid for Govt consensus on member’s bill

National want to replicate a ban that was passed by Australian lawmakers.

‘Absolutely love him’: Webster defiant as Warriors half linked with Cowboys

‘I’ve got no intention of letting him go.’

'There’s a fire in your playground!': Hero schoolgirl alerts staff, saves lives in restaurant blaze

Nine-year-old Harper Davis saw "a flicker of fire" and raced to tell McDonald's staff.

Real Life: Voom’s Buzz Moller on how ‘Beth’ became accidental student radio hit

'No one was meant to hear it,' Moller said while discussing his life, music and career.

'Decades of experience' – Craig Heatley company, Hoppers plan $220m marina

A forecast 140 jobs are to be created over 30 years if plans are allowed to proceed.

'You'll see your son in the flowers': Slain student may be awarded posthumous PhD

'The research had been done, he just needed to put it together.'

Westpac CEO intervenes after pensioner loses $158k in bank transfer error

The money went to an Auckland woman who allegedly spent it on cars and transfers.

'I’m going to kill us both': Man smashed into stationary truck after hearing break-up news

The toxic relationship ended with the defendant and his now ex both needing surgery.