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Kiwi golden girl Lisa Carrington again demonstrated her fondness for that particular hue, taking out the K1 500 at the second World Cup regatta in the Czech Republic tonight.

A driver in a BMW armed with a hunting knife and mask led police on a 100km low speed pursuit along a major Northland state highway.

A police officer has been charged with organising drug runs for a methamphetamine ring and accessing the police computer system to tip off his colleagues in the Head Hunters gang.

The primary suspect in an investigation into the murder of road worker George Taiaroa claims he is wanted only because he had a vehicle that matched the description of one police were looking for, an associate says.

A person was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a car hit a power pole in Northland last night.

Disappointment has been raised about the state of the Lord's pitch, despite the inclement conditions faced by the ground staff to prepare a test-quality strip.

He came the nearest of any Crusader to scoring a try against the Blues in their first encounter this season and made a statement when coming off the reserves bench against the Brumbies, yet Israel Dagg's failure to crack the starting XV tonight is down to his lack of confidence, says Todd Blackadder.

It's something that afflicted All Blacks' teams at World Cups for close to two decades and now the Warriors are experiencing their own performance anxiety that threatens to ruin their season.

Flight time Auckland to Christchurch: about 1 hour 20 minutes. Difference in recent rugby pedigree: light years.

By the time New Zealand finish their six-match series against Korea, the two teams will most likely be on first- name terms, know each other's shoe size and have friended them on Facebook.