Police are treating the death of a man in Feilding as suspicious after his body was found in the Manawatu town this morning.

Dave Dobbyn, who celebrated 30 years in music last year, is touring the majestic churches, chapels and cathedrals of New Zealand on the 2010 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour.

Helen van Berkel returns to the slopes and finds that skiing is nothing like riding a bike... and that kids are better at it.

A man who left his baby son unattended in a car while he visited a Wellington strip club has admitted assaulting the child's mother.

A 25-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his brother in a fight, has had his name suppression order lifted.

"Count yourself lucky," Justice Warwick Gendall told Joanne Jasmine Tahuri as he sentenced her for the manslaughter of her granddaughter.

Alistair McWhannell has been found guilty of manslaughter in the bridge-swinging death of Massey University student Catherine Peters.

A new case of tuberculosis at Palmerston North Boys' High School is believed to be related to a previous outbreak.

A witness to a bridge-swinging event where an 18-year-old student fell to her death broke down in tears while giving evidence in court today.

A critically injured man who was struck by a train in Levin has woken up and acknowledged his name is Alan.

A person is dead in a crash at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Kingston Road, about 2km north of the Horowhenua town of Shannon.

Police have released photographs of the injured man as a "last resort" in an effort to identify him.