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.

Showers are on their way with a northeast flow spreading across the country from tomorrow.

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.

In the last three months, offenders committed six ram-raid burglaries at commercial premises which sold high-end electrical equipment.

Roadworks on the Brynderwyn Hills are already $3 million over budget, Northland MP Winston Peters says, claiming the blowout will rise and put at risk other vital roading projects.

A woman was busted selling methamphetamine to an undercover police officer while she was breastfeeding her young baby as part of a nationwide drug sting.

The patient is said to have suffered moderate injuries.

None of the fixed speed cameras in Rotorua, and much of the rest of the country have working cameras inside.

A crash on the Southern Motorway blocked the right lane to the city after Mount Wellington at 6.15 this morning.

What began as an effort to live a healthier lifestyle led to a dangerous condition for this young woman.

When a thief struck in Napier, he took the one thing owner Zan Lee had installed to prevent things being taken.

Warning - contains offensive language: A Whangarei police constable racially abused a Maori man several times before his arrest for assaulting police, a jury has heard.

The Hawke's Bay SPCA is trying to find a Napier cat-hater who seems to be illegally using traps to catch people's pets.

A Hastings couple have been remanded on bail for sentence on multiple burglary charges after a series of raids on the homes of the woman's parents and one of her neighbours.