The teenager who was found dead outside a Waikato hospital died instantly when she was hit by a car in the Kaimai Range, according to a post-mortem.

A man and a woman allegedly stole a car, abducted a man who accidentally ran over their female companion in the middle of the night and then dumped her body.

A man has been found guilty of the murder of New Zealander Brent Dumper at his daughter's house-warming party on the Gold Coast.

A house-warming party fuelled by alcohol and drugs led to a New Zealand man being shot in the back and killed, a Brisbane court has heard.

Flames reached as high as nine metres today as a South Auckland home was engulfed in a blaze.

Lotto survey reveals most of us would keep working and not make public the news of overnight windfall.

The party's third-ranked candidate and foreign affairs spokesman, John Minto, told reporters the party wanted all New Zealand troops recalled from Afghanistan before Christmas.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

With the All Whites' surprise World Cup success, it seems soccer awareness is on the rise. And kids and parents alike are loving it, writes Gill South.

The best thing to come out of Auckland's Super City amalgamation is that you can borrow 3.5 million items from 55 libraries from Wellsford to Waiuku. Here we choose our favourite handful.

A large factory destroyed by fire yesterday could have been saved had sprinklers been installed, says a fire safety officer.

Fire crews have put out a "huge" blaze that destroyed a tofu factory in the south Auckland suburb of Papakura this afternoon.