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Low key New Year's mood for most

Yesterday, New Year's Day, the sun settled in for the week, with a promise of hot, dry days to come.

Man burnt on camp stove flown to hospital

Coromandel boat sinking victim named

Man dies in boat crash

Injured bus driver's wife grateful to quick-thinking helpers

The wife of Ross McSheffrey, who was pinned under his own bus yesterday, has paid tribute to his rescuers.

Boy, 8, in hot pool horror

An 8-year-old boy is this morning fighting for his life after falling into a Rotorua geothermal pool as hot as 100C.

Golden Bay cleans up after worst flood in 150 years

Major South Island roads remain closed by flooding after a storm that swept through New Zealand yesterday.

Man found dead on fire had been burning plastic

Thirty firefighters tackle warehouse blaze

Top cop badly hurt in horror crash

A senior Western Bay of Plenty police officer has been seriously hurt in a horror smash north of Te Puke this morning and a motorcyclist has died following a crash at Mount Maunganui yesterday.

Threat to public considered in pursuit, inquest told

A road policing boss says police did not breach policy by continuing a pursuit during which an innocent Auckland was shot dead.

Ill woman airlifted off Pacific Pearl liner

Field hospital needed for drunken London corporates

A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.

Firefighters contain spill in Kawerau

Police should have abandoned pursuit, inquest told

A former police superintendent has told an inquest police should have abandoned the pursuit which eventually led to the police motorway shooting of an innocent Auckland courier early last year.

Police breached pursuit policy - IPCA

Multiple breaches of police policy have been found in a pursuit where an officer was hit and seriously wounded by a drug-affected fleeing offender. The IPCA found a pursuing officer ignored two orders to abandon the chase.