A 12-year-old boy suffered serious burns when a petrol container he was carrying burst into flames and then exploded. He's been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital where his condition is described as...

Police say 'a great deal' of work had gone into ensuring the safety of a woman taken hostage by a her former partner, who had just finished serving time for trying to cut her throat.

The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.

A man police shot dead after he took a woman hostage at gunpoint at a Taranaki Hotel overnight was released from jail last week. Police this afternoon named him as Anthony Ratahi, 46, from Stratford.

Chenye Hughes was asleep in her conservatory when a tornado tore through her New Plymouth...

Firefighters have been working flat out in New Plymouth today assessing the damage after two tornadoes tore through the city early this morning.

Police say an elderly woman who sneaked out of a New Plymouth rest home, checked herself into a motel for the night.

A country music singer was killed when his car was sliced in two by a double-decker truck yesterday.

One person is dead after a crash involving a truck and a car on State Highway 3 south of Uruti this morning.

Apparently, rocking horses around New Zealand have been gradually culled from playgrounds in recent years.