A motorcyclist nabbed doing 132km/h on a rural stretch of road and found to have been drinking has led to another stern reminder from police to drive responsibly.

Police are shocked with the actions of a motorcyclist who sped through a stretch of road that only hours before had claimed the life of a man in a horror truck crash.

Police operation that seized drugs, cash, cars and jetskis in raids on properties linked to motorcycle gang also found a sizeable collection of Star Wars figures.

Nearly 20 people have been detained after a meth-ring was allegedly busted in a large scale police operation launched across New Zealand today.

A Tauranga mother is furious after a bus driver drove off and left her teenage son and a friend stranded after he was sick on the bus.

Northland police are searching an area of isolated bush looking for the body of a missing gang member.

Black smoke caused by fault in Marsden Point Oil Refinery is allowed under Refining NZ's resource consent.

School says ban will stay until there is certainty around new Health and Safety at Work Act comes into force.

Three vessels came to grief in bar crossings during Easter - leading a regional authority to warn that crossing bars is the most dangerous activity.

Morning cloud and a few showers will greet most of the country this morning, but the rain is expected to clear later this afternoon.

A North Island farmer is on the mend after being flung more than 3m into the air by a rampaging steer.

Four-wheel drive towing a caravan collided with a truck in Warkworth.

WATCH: Principal believes his pupils have been ripped off after counterfeit for school gala discovered.

Women in fear as man takes to following them through wood.

Construction firms desperate for tradies.

Miriyana Alexander checks out a luxury lodge that's luring celebs to New Zealand.

A 50-year-old-man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being stung by bees north of Auckland.

New Plymouth's Pukekura Park is rocking again to diverse sounds from across the globe as the annual WOMAD music festival kicks off in Taranaki.

Why you should always use a professional when moving furniture.

"There is a steady increase of women being abducted, tied up, put in the boot of cars, taken away to the bush or the beach, or their partners having utensils to bury them."

A Napier man sustained a head wound during a violent home invasion this morning. He was tied up and beaten while his home was ransacked.

Police are hunting a group of men who assaulted and robbed a 58-year-old male at home in Napier this morning.

A man has described the horrifying moment a diver was dragged up on the beach at Mathesons Bay suffocating and "foaming from the mouth and nose".

One person has been killed after being crushed between a container and a truck at Mount Maunganui.

A man has died after a car failed to stop at in intersection and collided with another vehicle.

A boating trip has ended in tragedy after a man drowned when the alloy pontoon boat he was on flipped in the water north of Napier.

A police officer shot in the hand during a 22-hour stand-off in the Bay of Plenty on Wednesday has been discharged from hospital.

A man alleged to have fled a fatal crash in which he is thought to have been the driver has been interviewed by police.