A businessman has told of his desperate attempts to save his badly injured wife after she drove off the road in bad weather.

A week after being released back into the wild, and more than two months after being knocked over by a car, North Island brown kiwi Darkstar has drowned in a culvert.

A heroic mother has had a tearful reunion with a woman whom she helped to escape from a hammer-wielding man who pursued them in a car chase.

A mother-of-two is being hailed a hero after saving a woman from an attack by a hammer-wielding man who then pursued the pair and rammed her car during a violent car chase.

Darkstar the kiwi has made a full recovery after being hit by a truck and is being released back into the wild near Nunguru.

A 28-year-old man died yesterday after the Holden he was driving collided with another car near Whangarei.

Seven native forest geckos have been snatched from their enclosure at a Northland conservation park.