Aleesha Tait had just finished her morning shift on a farm and was heading home for lunch when her farm bike and a car collided in Waikato.

After rugby training, teen Dylan Fynn came home, downed his nachos and calmly announced at the family dinner table: "I nearly died today."

The man whose body was found in a cardboard bale last week likely died in a tragic accident, police say.

First Union assistant general secretary Karl Andersen says the driver of a recycling truck is not to blame for the death of a homeless man.

The driver of a red car who may hold information into a crash which claimed four young lives came forward after an appeal was made.

Several residents in Te Awamutu were surprised to find local police knocking on their doors today offering packages of free meat.

A man used a cut-down shotgun when he robbed a bank in Te Awamutu.