A body has been found at Clock Hill, in Alexandra.
An Israeli woman has died in a crash on the Te Anau- Milford Sound Highway, just south of an area called Knobbs Flat.
Heavy rain continues to cause travel chaos on the South Island's West Coast, with its main road closed for at least another four days, and now railway lines being shut down.
Frank Lampard underlined his value to Chelsea with a well-taken double to secure a 2-1 comeback win at Everton and Liverpool heaped more misery on Premier League strugglers Queens Park Rangers.
Google and Facebook made their names by helping people find information or friends online. But in recent weeks the two rivals have made some surprising moves in a different direction - the business of selling and delivering goods.
Australia reached 150-3 at the close of the opening day of the second test, punishing Sri Lanka after the visitors had failed to build on Kumar Sangakkara's landmark half century and were dismissed for just 156.
One man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a Wellington journalist, but not guilty of murder.
John McGlashan College held its junior prizegiving recently. The prize list is. -
Waitaki Boys' High School held its junior prizegiving recently. The prize list is.-
The man who tagged a swastika and lewd pictures of body parts on a visiting Australian Air Force plane before spitting on it has brought ''considerable shame'' on the defence force and the wider community, a court has been told.
Police have named the 82-year-old man who died in a head-on crash on State Highway 1 near Kuriwao, east of Clinton, yesterday.
One person is dead following a head-on crash on State Highway 1 near Kuriwao, about 5km north of Clinton, this afternoon.
A skydiver fell to his death near the Wanaka Airport about 4pm today.
A Dunedin woman is undergoing surgery after she was attacked in her City Rise home this morning.
A 19-month-old girl has suffered deep bites to her face and other head injuries in an attack by a dog, believed to belong to her family.
The Singaporean driver who caused fatal crash near Clinton last month has been given 21 months' jail and ordered to pay $18,000 emotional harm reparation to the woman whose father was killed in the accident.
An armed man is believed to have taken two children hostage at Waihi.
Three serious crashes in three hours in Hamilton today left one person dead, one child seriously injured and four people requiring medical attention.
Grieving pet owners in Singapore, known for lavishing care in life on their animals, can soon share their feelings about furred family members after they pad off to the great beyond - via obituaries in the city-state's largest newspaper.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Indonesian islands of the Moluccas, the U.S. Geological Survey said.