When Lee Rata was severely beaten last year, Seddon Beazley took the opportunity to further his standing with the Mongrel Mob. However, his mother knew different.

A Whangarei steel company is thrilled at winning a Convention Centre steel contract, which has already started providing new jobs for Northlanders, with more on the way.

Napier MP Stuart Nash says he has lost confidence in the region's police district commander.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has launched an investigation into the deaths of three horses at Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse on Monday.

The man who died after falling while climbing Mt Taranaki was a French national.

A new political party has formed and is vying for the older vote.

Freedom campers will face the wrath of a dedicated council contractor if they break the rules and park up on one of the Bay's most idyllic visitor spots, Bowentown's Anzac Bay.

Three members of the Plymouth Brethren church were among the fatalities over the long weekend.

The truck driver accused of ploughing his truck into a motorway overbridge, causing hours of gridlock in Auckland, was excused from appearing in court today.

Nazi concentration camp survivor Bob Narev has spent his life trying to warn people about the dangers of standing by and letting others be cruel.

Kiwi remembers the day his dying grandfather took him to see Muhammad Ali.

Two dramatic videos have been released showing how Northland's forests are collapsing due to chronic underfunding of the Department of Conservation and lack of pest control.

The two-year-old girl fatally shot in her South Auckland home was farewelled.

Eleven people have died on our roads up until midnight, the highest number of deaths for a Queen's Birthday weekend since 1989.

Boy, 14, thrown onto car bonnet, before hitting the road.

A man with Parkinson's disease who went missing in the Glenn Innes area has been found and is safe.

WATCH: Two liquor store workers turn the tables on their attempted robbers.

The Queen's Birthday road toll is now up to seven following the death of a man involved in a crash yesterday.

Three fire trucks and ambulance staff are at the scene, on Cumberland Crescent in Welcome Bay.

The teen and a 9-year-old, who suffered serious injuries, were in a car which crashed into a tree on Ferguson St in Mangere at about 9.15am yesterday.

When Samson Faulafo and his friends pointed out to a family they'd dropped a $10 note at Denny's, they didn't expect anything in return.

Two children have been treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire near Rotorua this morning.

The death of a motorcyclist this afternoon has brought the long weekend road toll to three in just 24 hours.

Police said the crash happened after they received numerous calls about racers in the early hours of this morning.

Another person has died on the roads this holiday weekend already following a serious crash on State Highway 3 near Te Kuiti.