A soldier who fell into a coma after collapsing with heat exhaustion on a training run for the SAS appears to be responding to the love and support of his whanau who have flocked to his bedside, his sister says.
A woman who witnessed a motorist being killed in a suspected road rage incident in Lower Hutt can't forget his look of bewilderment as he realised he had been stabbed.
Two protesters have been arrested for refusing to leave the Occupy Auckland protest site at Aotea Square.
A young woman who drowned at a popular Canterbury swimming spot yesterday is thought to have been pinned against a gateway by fast-lowing water.
A judge has rejected as "draconian'' Auckland Council's application to send Auckland Occupy protesters to prison if they do not leave Aotea Square, where a handful still remain despite a court order.
There are fears radioactive muttonbirds could be on their way to New Zealand after the migrating birds were found to have been feeding close to Japan's ruptured Fukushima nuclear plant.
About 100 Roman Catholics knelt and prayed in the rain today before a ripped billboard depicting a shocked-looking Virgin Mary clutching a positive pregnancy test.
James Hemana may be a rough man but he is not evil and did not murder a 6-month-old baby, a court has been told.
A man who left his dog for dead after it swallowed a skewer that pierced its stomach has been sentenced to 300 hours community work and ordered to pay close to $1000 reparation.
Jailed fraudster Trevor Allan Ludlow has been banned from working in the consumer finance industry after trying to rip off desperate homeowners.
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is defending itself against criticism over the length of time it took to ensure the safety of Mount Victoria Tunnel in Wellington, after a report suggested users were at risk of being hit by falling concrete.
A prominent dentist and academic has been ordered to pay more than $11,000 and told he can only practice under supervision after he made money by pretending to provide Dunedin patients with two sets of false teeth instead of one.
Phil Goff spent the morning trying to shore up support in south Auckland, one of the Labour Party's metropolitan strongholds, with just two weeks left until the election and what must seem like a mountain still to climb.
Police say speed, alcohol, inexperience and not wearing seat belts appear to have been factors in a horror crash which left a teenager dead and another critically injured in Waikato early yesterday morning.
Two weeping teenage girls sat by the roadside where 17-year-old Sanele Pauli was was hit by a car and killed after celebrating the All Blacks' victory with his two younger brothers.
A gaggle of geese blocked a main motorway out of Dunedin this morning and were attacking cars as they drove past.
A "flash mob" of protesters blocked off part of Queen St today intent on showing the world that New Zealand isn't "100 percent pure".
A coroner has recommended strict criteria be applied for opening skifields in icy conditions following the death of a woman who lost control and slid nearly 900m to her death, one of there fatalities resulting from slips on hard-packed snow last winter.
A turtle miraculously survived an inferno in an aquarium which was so hot it boiled water in some tanks and killed hundreds of fish.
The case of a desperate young mother who was turned away by Work and Income shows the "heartlessness and lack of common decency'' inherent in the organisation, former Green Party MP Sue Bradford says.