A Whanganui High Court jury has found Rikki Ngatai-Check, who kicked two-year-old Karl Perigo-Check to death, guilty of murder.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman hit by a car while picnicking with a friend on the roadside north of Wellington last month.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

The rescue was of Hollywood proportions... A man and his wife are in a taxi, they see a little boy standing on the tracks...

The Palmerston North rescue helicopter has airlifted two trampers out of the bush.

NZ Post allowed a Manawatu mailman to keep driving for them, despite knowing about a string of drink-driving convictions.

The Law Society has renewed its call to reinstate the partial defence of provocation following its successful use in the Bourke manslaughter case.

Police investigating the shooting of a school caretaker in Palmerston North yesterday say it may be linked to similar incidents in recent months.

The trial has begun of a freezing worker accused of shooting dead his brother and driving around the lower North Island with him in the back seat, avoiding police during a two-day manhunt.