10-year-old Luca and his family have collected abandoned jandals off Gisborne beaches for more than 10 years.

It is more than eight months since a South Auckland cemetery was desecrated and the court case for the woman accused of the vandalism is no closer to being resolved.

Truck crash spills waste onto Southern Motorway.

Friends and family have made heartfelt tributes to the three young victims of a fatal crash.

Police have named the man killed in a car crash just south of Whangarei on Tuesday.

Fire investigators are this morning heading to the scene of a blaze that badly damaged Hutt Valley property last night.

Mother of 26-year-old Amy Katu, one of the victims of today's horror triple fatal crash in Te Kuiti, says she's in disbelief that her daughter is gone.

A man accused of punching a woman outside an east Auckland bar after she spoke Te Reo, has appeared in court.

The family of a motorcyclist killed in Hamilton this week has paid tribute to a loved husband and treasured dad.

Marley was a beloved family pet and owner Chelsea Ellmers says it feels like a piece of her family is missing.

Two cars collided with a stock truck in Tauranga.

A person has died after a logging truck collided with a car on State Highway 1 near Oakleigh, south of Whangarei, this morning.

A pod of daring orcas have came very close to the Kapiti Coast shore line for the second time in recent months.

One person has died in a collision between a motorcycle and a van in central Hamilton this afternoon.

A man has died after a stack of panels fell on top of him at factory in the Waikato town.

GeoNet reports two "light" earthquakes today in the North Island.

Spyridia filamentosa, you are to blame.

Three drivers fled from Northland police within hours of each other, with one allegedly setting the stolen car he was driving on fire.

Swathes of the beach at Waipu Cove in Northland are covered in smelly red algae, blighting the spot's usually pristine golden sand.

A neighbour who tried to save the life of a preschooler hit by a car in a farm driveway near Tokoroa was too distressed later to talk about the fatality.

Police are still appealing for sightings of slain mother of two, Jo Pert, and her alleged attacker.

Opito was worth the journey, even if Eveline Harvey didn't get to sample its scallops.

A man in his 20s is now in a stable condition after being stabbed at a West Auckland address early this morning.

A drink driver who fled police, sparking a chase which left a power pole damaged, now faces being charged the cost to replace it.

A man has had surgery today after he was shot in Hamilton early this morning.

The motorcyclist who lost both legs in a crash with a truck remains critically unwell in Auckland City Hospital.

A motorcyclist involved in crash with a truck in Taranaki this afternoon has died.

WATCH: Weta Workshop has lifted the covers off the construction process of Gisborne's new statue of Footrot Flats figures Wal and Dog.

The woman killed on her morning run through the leafy Auckland suburb of Remuera is being remembered a "kind and gentle person".

Four people have been arrested after they allegedly fled police in a stolen car and crashed into a lamp post while trying to avoid road spikes in Raglan last night.