Rebecca Quilliam

A midwife who cared for pregnant women without a current practising certificate has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Nearly 70 pieces of ivory have been seized from a Napier house after a carved elephant's tusk, on its way to the property, was intercepted at the International Mail Centre in Auckland.

Veterans who served in Malaya during a guerilla conflict 50 years ago say New Zealand soldiers who were exposed to a toxic insecticide while serving there should be compensated for their children's health problems.

Rooms of cannabis was discovered when dozens of police officers swooped on a rural Waikato property today.

Horses have escaped injury after a stable fire in Auckland early today.

A person has died in a house fire in Christchurch overnight.

A 21-year-old forestry worker from Rotorua is in the intensive care unit at Tauranga Hospital after falling about 200 metres down a cliff face this afternoon.

A new events centre at Canterbury University has closed its doors while an investigation is conducted into its floor sinking during a concert at the weekend.

Police have formally identified a woman found dead yesterday near a running track on Wellington's Mt Victoria, but cannot name her until all next of kin have been advised.

The body of missing Ohaupo pig hunter Kevin Hayward has been found by police.