New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

The rescue was of Hollywood proportions... A man and his wife are in a taxi, they see a little boy standing on the tracks...

The deaths of four people in house fires across the country in the past five days could have been prevented, the Fire Service says.

Police are searching for a man who smashed a car into an overbridge near Levin and took off on foot early today.

Slips and surface flooding are causing havoc for motorists in the lower North Island as heavy rain and gale force winds sweep the region.

A woman's habit of buying a Lotto ticket in each new town she visits has paid off.

A critically injured man who was struck by a train in Levin has woken up and acknowledged his name is Alan.

A motorcyclist was spotted travelling along a busy stretch of SH1 at a speed described by one officer as unsurvivable if there was a crash.

Once, cycling was dominated by couriers and lycra-clad racers.

Steven Joyce says the toll on the Transmission Gully route will be no more than $3.