A Northland police officer has been hit over the head with his own baton after being called out to deal with a drunken fight.

She is the Christmas angel who wanted to help another 9-year-old girl in suffering.

This is the face of the latest New Zealand child to die as a result of alleged abuse. Five-year-old Sahara Jayde Baker-Koro was found dead in her bed in Napier early on Tuesday.

A man accused of attacking a police officer was in 2005 being hailed as a success story in a school bullying project.

The mother of a girl, 5, found dead in her bed after an alleged assault was trying to escape violence in her life.

A 15-year-old girl bought alcohol from a Mt Maunganui bar during a police operation at the weekend.

NZ student loan borrowers in Australia who told Inland Revenue to 'go to hell' could find themselves before the courts.

The younger players managed to hold off their older opponents to make the finals at the NZ Residentials tennis champs yesterday.

Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association.

The Government needs to stop hiding if it wants to avoid intensified strike action by secondary school teachers next year, says the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA).

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Auckland's Mission Bay heard a survivor scream, 'Bro, I told you not to speed'.

A teacher 'counselled' a student who was in a relationship with a relative by having sex with her at lunchtime.

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.