While the snow may be lacking, officials at Mt Ruapehu are confident the mountain's skifields will open on time.

Claims that Grey Power has lost its way are forcing some local associations to rethink their alignment with the group.

One person has died after a house fire near Ohakune.

A woman's been airlifted to hospital after she was run down by a mob of sheep.

The man who died in a Taihape house fire on Saturday night was Hamish Allan.

A house fire has claimed a life at Utiku, south of Taihape.

Police have released the name of a young Paraparaumu man killed in a fatal car crash north of Wellington.

A house fire on the Kapiti Coast near Wellington has been put out.

The lower North Island is expected to remain under a blanket of cloud for most of today.

A teenager's in Hawke's Bay Regional Hospital after falling from her horse during a hunt on a Crownthorpe farm.

Opponents of the Kapiti Expressway are preparing for a fight.