Friends pay tribute to Fonterra driver Michael Fairclough, who was found dead at his home after last week's horror triple fatality in Patea.

Police are warning motorists to watch their speed as the wet weather catches out drivers.

All adverse weather warnings and watches have been lifted as the worst of this week's wet weather clears northern regions.

Prime Minister John Key will not rule out Government intervention to solve Auckland's housing problem.

A group of men who stabbed the owner of a liquor store in South Auckland were wielding double-bladed knives.

A staff member at the police college near Wellington has died after getting into difficulty in the swimming pool this afternoon.

The tanker driver involved in Thursday's triple fatality in Patea has been found dead in his home, it was confirmed today.

Police are investigating a suspicious fire which started when an unknown object was thrown at a bedroom window while a family slept.

Rare encounter with stranded bigeye thresher shark.

The Wairarapa Balloon Festival had crowds far exceeding expectations - which would have been great if the show wasn't cancelled.

A learner driver carrying a passenger was driving more than double the posted speed limit in wet conditions when he was pulled over by police.

A woman has died in a suspected drowning at a marina south of Whangarei.

Members of the public have a chance to revel in the macabre by taking in the sights at the Southern Hemisphere's biggest cemetery.

A Hamilton family had a lucky escape from a fire which swept through a Dinsdale house early this morning.

One of Auckland's last remaining untouched beaches is under threat of development.

A man who stabbed his wife to death and then turned the knife on those who tried to save her planned the killing six weeks earlier, a judge has ruled. Outside court Detective Inspector Kevin Hooper paid tribute to the "stoic" family of the victim, whose emotions were too raw for them to address media.

Police speak to three youths and confiscate BB gun after school bus was shot at in the Waikato town of Morrinsville.

Two dangerous criminals wanted by police are on the loose in New Zealand in relation to two separate incidents.

When she saw her little girl alive and well, after fearing she had drowned, Ali Wharehinga thought she was looking at a ghost.

Brent Scott murdered his wife and then turned the knife on those who tried to save her. He has been jailed for at least 17 years.

A handful of Upper Hutt city councillors are in the firing line after making the city a TPP-free zone.

Cristobal Pérez Salas from Chile says all he knows about Tokoroa is from Google.

Mayor hopeful doesn't care that the Prime Minister plays there.

Northland school principal caught peeping into woman's home in dead of night.

A real estate agent has been fined for failing to tell buyers their new house had been home to drug dealing. So what else do agents have to disclose?

A 54-year-old man was taken into custody after he fired a .303 rifle when police were called to a house in Carterton.

The 3-year-old girl who was inside a car stolen from a West Auckland supermarket last night is afraid of going outside in case "the baddies" come, her father says.