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Chopper's eye back in the sky

Confidence in police up

Crash prompts road name review

Confusion over the location of a motorcycle accident in which a man was killed has prompted emergency services to use colloquial road names.

Residents unhappy with fire station's design

Black weekend on NZ roads

A teenager was clinging to life last night as six crashes in 20 hours left one person dead and 15 needing hospital treatment.

Emergency sirens test in Hutt

Student taken to hospital after experiment

Aisling inquiry police numbers to grow

A mystery man holding a broken umbrella is on a growing list of "people of interest" to police hunting missing toddler Aisling Symes.

Woman trapped in crashed plane

Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.

Police: House not home of dead baby

Police release dead toddler's name

Police have named the Morrinsville toddler who died in hospital on Saturday night.

Tornado tears into country homes

When the Fire Service called John Weatherley and told him there was a problem at home he thought his house must have burned down.

Dead toddler's extended family known to agency

Homicide probe into baby death

It will take several days to establish what caused the death of a 22-month-old girl taken to hospital with serious injuries, police say.

Security tightened after second fire in six weeks

Police investigating girl's death