One person is dead after a crash between a car and truck in the Dome Valley.

Vehicle swerved to miss a school bus before colliding with another vehicle, police say.

An investigation is continuing to find a missing Horowhenua man last seen nearly two months ago.

Police are investigating the incident, in which the Te Aroha Primary School pupil was walking over a walk bridge near the Waikato town's wetlands.

A 20-metre fishing boat ran aground 30km off Whitianga on the southern end of Red Mercury Island.

Barry and Kristin Loggenberg ran from their vehicle to help after coming across crumpled wreck.

A skipper has been fined and received a formal warning after his boat capsized leaving him and his two passengers floating in the water.

Police confirm the Southern Motorway is now open following a crash which earlier closed two southbound lanes.

Woman knocked off her scooter by a car leaving a driveway.

Police divers have recovered the body of a man whose car plunged into the Waikato River yesterday.

A person has been flown to hospital with serious abdominal injuries after a head on collision in the East Cape area this morning.

Sandeep Kumar's victims trusted him to drive them home - instead he assaulted them.

22 full-time jobs to go from the university's education department in proposal revealed to staff.

Police are monitoring a group who claim to be setting up a Daktory in Whangarei - a paid club where members congregate to openly smoke cannabis.

Five logging truck crashes in less than a month across Northland deemed "totally unacceptable and intolerable", says transport industry leader.

Fergus Glen was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his brother Craig in 2003 after a long-term feud between the pair.

Two teenagers and one man have been arrested following an incident during which a police dog was kicked and an officer assaulted.

An American woman lost in the New Zealand bush for four freezing nights with her "most remarkable" mother credits her with saving her life.

The car driven by a mother and daughter missing since Wednesday has been found at an entrance to a hiking track in the Tararua range.

First it was White Island's crater lake that was making scientists sit up - and now it is the one atop Mt Ruapehu.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

The trial of Kamal Reddy has heard that cash was being withdrawn from a woman's account after she had disappeared.

Lifeguards made 581 rescues at beaches between Ahipara in the Far North and Raglan in the Waikato this summer.

The eruption on the volcanic island appears to have deposited material over north side of the crater floor.

Dargaville High School principal David Kenneth Bargh has been convicted and fined for lurking on the property of a female teacher at night.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges confirmed work will commence this year along the ill-fated stretch between Pokeno and the State Highway 25 intersection.

Fire crews from Rotorua and Taupo are currently attending a fire at Dudley Mechanical Preps on Manuka St in Taupo.

Several cars smashed their way into a service station overnight, leaving a worker cowering in a back room.

A trial for a man accused of murdering his ex-partner and her daughter has had an unexpected delay after a juror was sent home.

City bound traffic is heavily congested on the Northwestern Motorway back to Hobsonville after a crash near Rosebank Rd.