More than a third of farm fatalities involve quad bikes, and the number of injuries from quad bikes is increasing at an "alarming" rate, according to a study by Waikato Hospital's trauma centre.
Residents are returning to their houses this morning following a P lab explosion that has injured at least one man.
A linesman escaped almost unscathed after receiving an 11,000 volt shock - almost four times as powerful as an electric chair.
The Muriwai community is disgusted by a US TV shows that pokes fun at New Zealand shark attack victim Adam Strange.
A driver of a campervan is in hospital in a critical condition after a crash on the Waiwera River bridge on the Hibiscus Coast Highway this afternoon.
Seventy-four-year-old John Burrows Baird lived alone and, his neighbours said, kept to himself.
It's raining at last. Weatherwatch analyst Richard Green said most of the drought-stricken North Island, and much of the South, got a reasonable soaking overnight and this morning.
A group of children say they are grateful to their elderly school bus driver who managed to pull over safely even though he was bleeding from the stomach after a metal pole flew through the windscreen.
Whangarei school bus driver Sam Fife feels lucky to have escaped with a split liver and a few broken ribs after a steel pole came hurtling through his windshield on Monday.
The family of slain roadworker George Taiaroa have made an impassioned plea for information that could lead to the arrest of his killer.
Veteran Maori rights activist Tame Iti says he holds no animosity towards the Crown for his stay in prison.
A smooth-talking conman who stole about $1.4 million from his 20 mostly vulnerable victims has been handed a five-year prison sentence.
A disease carried by cats commonly thought of as "benign" and "trivial" can be much more debilitating than previously believed, University of Auckland researchers have found.
Troubled Crusaders wing Zac Guildford allegedly punched the wrong man at a party earlier this month, the victim's father says.
The family of missing teenager Blake Sinclair will carry out their own private search of the Clutha River after the official search was scaled down, police say.
A fire which engulfed a downtown Auckland apartment building this morning is being treated as suspicious.
A post-mortem examination is being carried out today on a teenager who died after drinking alcohol, including home-brewed spirits, at an 18th birthday party in south Auckland on Saturday.
A man has been arrested following an early morning shooting in Blenheim.
A boat which capsized in the Hauraki Gulf this morning, resulting in the deaths of two men, was probably overloaded and too small for the rough conditions, authorities say.
The Department of Conservation has been criticised for not having adequate safety measures in place when a volunteer died while taking water temperatures on remote Raoul Island in January.
