Search continues for Fai
Searchers have no intention of giving up looking for Warriors rugby league player Sonny Fai, presumed drowned off Auckland's West Coast.
Searchers have no intention of giving up looking for Warriors rugby league player Sonny Fai, presumed drowned off Auckland's West Coast.
Three days after the official holiday road toll period ended police are continuing to release details about the 24 deaths.
Today they named two people killed on January 1.
Warriors rugby league legend Ruben Wiki said Sonny Fai was like a little brother to him.
A man is dead after the car he was in rolled at Matauri Bay, 24km north-east of Kaeo in Northland, early this afternoon.
The 39-year-old woman who lost a daughter and grandson in a horrific house fire which claimed four lives in south Auckland yesterday has been discharged from hospital.
A 19-year-old woman injured when a jetboat and jetski collided on the Kawarau River, near Queenstown, remains in a serious condition.
A decision on whether charges are laid over the death of a nine-year-old Eketahuna girl run over by a boat on Lake Taupo could be made by the Crown Solicitor, police say.
A woman whose two children were killed with their father in a crash between a car and a truck in Waikato on January 3 wants their funeral to be "a fun and bright celebration".
Nine-year-old Genevieve Lewis, killed in a waterskiing accident on Lake Taupo yesterday, had been a regular at the lake - swimming, tubing behind the family boat or sometimes waterskiing.