A 23-year-old man, charged with assaulting a police officer near Turangi yesterday, was granted interim name suppression this afternoon.

A woman who died in a Rotorua house fire early today would probably have been saved had the house been fitted with smoke alarms, firefighters say. Six occupants were taken to Rotorua Hospital for minor smoke inhalation. Two ambulances

The central North Island has been shaken by an earthquake this morning.

Rotorua police have charged a teenager after a woman was allegedly kidnapped in the city early today.

One person is dead after a truck and trailer unit rolled north of Waiouru in the central North Island late last night.