Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

The organiser of a hikoi which marched peacefully down Auckland's Queen Street today says the new foreshore and seabed legislation breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.

Jacob Beck-Jaffurs, who was in his final year of medical school, has died after a spear-fishing trip near Tauranga.

Former bank manager Vanessa Adams' family and friends sobbed openly in court as she was sent to prison for stealing more than $200,000 from customers' accounts.

Four-year-old boy is battling one of the world's rarest genetic diseases

A Far North man has been charged with murder following the discovery of an Auckland man's body near a popular hiking track in Northland.

A Whangarei policeman sacked after he was acquitted on an assault charges has failed to win his job back.

A police officer who was driving a patrol car that struck and killed a 16-year-old walking along a state highway at night gave an emotional apology.

A police officer has denied he was texting when the patrol car he was driving hit and killed a 16-year-old youth in Northland in 2009.

Two Northland dairy farmers have come up with a novel way to express their boyracer tendencies - from the comfort of their own couch.

A witness has described how darkly dressed figures, apparently drunk, were stumbling along a dark Northland road before a teenager was hit and killed by a police car.

The New Zealand men's hockey team have begun their ascent towards the London Olympics with a solid 2-0 win over Belgium in Whangarei.

A search resumed this morning for a four-year-old boy who went missing in Northland last night.