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A Christchurch woman whose body was found in the back of a car near the city's airport last week will be farewelled on Thursday.

Police say an attack on a 15-year-old girl in a Rotorua park on Sunday night may have been sexually motivated.

The first wife and daughter of a bigamist have come back in support of the south Auckland man, but say divorce is on the cards.

Police have released the name of a man killed in an early morning head-on crash in rural Waikato yesterday.

The Government is not considering a public holiday for Cantabrians to mark the anniversary of last year's earthquake.

A father accused of going berserk at a Child, Youth & Family centre in Christchurch has had a charge of threatening to kill withdrawn.

Auckland's striking port workers will consult their lawyers this afternoon.

A global airline industry magazine has named Air New Zealand the world's top airline for the second time in three years.

The stern section of the Rena appears to have stabilised for the moment after it started sinking this morning.

A man beaten, stabbed and left for dead on a Napier street says he thought he'd "taken a bit of a bash'' but was unaware he had been stabbed.