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A car has crashed into a railway overbridge in Silverstream, Upper Hutt.

The government has announced a new campaign to reduce harm to patients.

Police are investigating a "brutal" assault on a teenager in the Waikato overnight.

Nine people will appear at court today to face drugs charges following a police investigation into the manufacture, supply, possession and distribution of hard drugs.

A driver was under the influence of cannabis when he drove into the path of an oncoming truck, causing "total carnage", a coroner has found.

Police have released the name of a man who was was killed when he did a U-turn in front of a logging truck in Waikato on Wednesday.

Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has put eight local banks on notice over the rising risk of a housing bubble bursting in New Zealand.

A former soldier caught with a loaded rifle during a police domestic call out the day after he was discharged from the Army for disciplinary breaches has been convicted today.

After losing everything in a house fire, Omapere couple Chantal and Rui de Souza are finding comfort in the generosity of family, friends and complete strangers.

New Zealanders are the most transient people in the world, with a quarter of the population having moved to a different part of the country in the past five years, according to Gallup.