Otago Daily Times: National News

Police hunting a suspected kidnapper who escaped custody are door-knocking his known associates.

Part of a Wellington rest home has been evacuated following a chemical reaction between cleaning substances.

A businesswoman honoured by the Queen will be appealing a court order to return more than $14 million to a Maori land trust.

A measles alert has been issued for Rotorua after an infectious patient visited a popular tourist destination.

Police say the death of a man whose body was found in a creek at Auckland's North Shore yesterday does not appear to be suspicious.

The landscape of parts of the West Coast has been drastically altered, with whole forests flattened, shelter belts collapsed and all the popular tramping tracks rendered impassable by last week's massive windstorm.