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Some well-performed New Zealanders will not be featuring in the playoffs of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup competitions as European club rugby enters the knock-out stages.

Breakers development player and young Tall Black Tai Wynyard is set to attend one of the top basketball schools in the US, committing to the Kentucky Wildcats in 2016.

A witness to a dramatic car chase that eventually closed Auckland's Harbour Bridge last night has described the "scary" and "crazy" encounter as the alleged gunman attempted to ram police.

A motorcyclist has died this afternoon after colliding with another vehicle in Hawke's Bay.

A young girl has died after losing control of her quad bike and hitting a fence at a memorial event in Masterton on the weekend.

An Israeli tourist killed in a crash near Te Anau would likely have survived if she had been wearing a seatbelt, a coroner's inquest has found.

A woman who felt guilty about asking a depressed friend to leave her house late at night so she could get some sleep has been told by a coroner she is not to blame for him fatally crashing his car on the way home.

Two people were trapped and seriously injured after a pile-up involving a truck and two cars outside Christchurch this morning.

A New Zealander is among six skiers who died after being carried away by an avalanche during a trek in the French Alps.

The son of convicted murderer Helen Milner has today admitted possession of a sawn-off shotgun that he got for his own protection after hearing that his mother had hired a hitman to kill him.