A Taranaki woman has found over $400,000 at the bottom of her handbag in the form of an old Lotto ticket that she had forgotten to check.

Methane gas has long been identified as a potential problem for the Pike River Coal mine, as rescuers scramble to find up to 27 missing miners.

Tim Finn gets his first starring role in a movie with Predicament - and he writes the theme tune too, which, by the sounds, was no easy task considering he had to get that word into a song.

New local feature Predicament has quite a music and comedy pedigree in its cast. But its literary history, and its connections to past Kiwi films, could prove just as much of a drawcard. Scott Kara reports.

A report on police handling of a drunk driver who killed three young people is a cover-up, the mother of a victim says.

Police surveillance set up to catch a drunk driver who went on to kill three young people was flawed, a report released today said.