Sandy Adams kissed Skye goodbye and the child let out her typical high-pitched giggle. It was the last time she saw her 'little button' alive.

The two police officers who were shot in Christchurch on Tuesday morning have been released from hospital and are recovering with their families.

The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.

The mother of a teenager who was found on fire outside his Tauranga home is desperate for answers.

A South African tourist who came to NZ to visit family is lying near death in hospital, after suffering a rare reaction to a common infection.

Drunk youths are turning up at Auckland emergency rooms at the rate of almost one a day, says the ADHB.