The Ruapehu region is a great place to get on your bike.

Travellers could get caught as heavy downfalls settle over the North Island for the next 24 hours.

Having fallen into disuse once rail made life easier, the Central Plateau's Old Coach Rd is now being utilised by cyclists. Diana Clement got on her bike.

A Manawatu teen was today jailed for eight years and three months for the attempted murder of a Taihape policeman last year. Bruce Mellor was left for dead when he was attacked from behind with a machete after pulling over a stolen red

A young man on a rehabilitation programme for offenders has been stabbed outside the Probation Service building in Palmerston North.

Handwritten letters from students in Feilding have warmed the hearts of emergency service workers in quake-stricken Christchurch.

A coroner has laid blame for the death of a student killed in a bridge swinging accident in 2009 on the man who failed to check the rope.

Graphic cellphone video footage has surfaced showing a prolonged and vicious assault that left a Wanganui Girls' College student bleeding from her ears and needing hospital treatment. The footage shows the 15-year-old girl being...

Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy has been leaving prison for medical treatment, the Department of Corrections has confirmed today.

A grandmother jailed after driving at nearly twice the legal alcohol limit and killing cyclist Frank van Kampen on the Kapiti Coast has been released on parole after serving just half of her sentence.