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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.

The victims of a violent axe attack that took place in Wellington last year have been named today.