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5:51 PM | A five-year-old boy has died in the grounds of Motueka High School after a log rolled on to him.
4:23 PM | A 56-year-old Chinese tourist claims she was a victim of police brutality after she became upset when her car was towed from a Hamilton supermarket.
3:14 PM | A woman jumped into a waste water tank to rescue her three year old son after he fell down a manhole at Furneaux Lodge Resort, in the Marlborough Sounds.
2:19 PM | Politicians spent more than $3.1 million on domestic travel and accommodation in the last three months of last year.
1:52 PM | The first of the four men accused in the Dotcom Megaupload piracy case has been released from jail, but has been banned from accessing the internet in case he sets up a similar website.
1:37 PM | Road vibrations caused a loaded organic waste truck to roll down a steep bank and crash into a home in Torbay, Auckland, this morning.
1:36 PM | Police have confirmed a body found at Wellington's Scorching Bay this afternoon is that of a woman.
1:10 PM | A foreign tourist has been charged with theft after allegedly fleecing at least a dozen victims at the Luminate Festival at Canaan Downs.
1:00 PM | Friends of slain Nelson man Troy Minto have denied that he was "spoiling for a fight" and carrying weapons when he was shot.
12:50 PM | Veteran television and radio presenter Max Cryer has tried to shed light on the mysterious death of Viva Farmar, who plunged to her death from a Marlborough Aero Club plane 75 years ago.
12:22 PM | Former Fraser High School principal Martin Elliott has been sentenced to 40 hours of community work.
12:00 PM | The brother of murdered Nelson woman Ann Urquhart says the man convicted of her killing could have been free from jail years ago if he had only confessed where his sister's remains were.
11:54 AM | Gang members armed with knives threatened to spoil Waitangi Day celebrations with violence.
11:17 AM | A Levin man being arrested by police has collapsed and died, sparking an independent probe.
11:10 AM | Tania Dyett might just be the world's oldest yoga teacher.
10:42 AM | A man is dead after a two-car crash in Henderson this morning.
10:26 AM | One of internet piracy-accused Kim Dotcom's mansions has been seized by officials this morning.
10:12 AM | Water in Lake Horowhenua is so toxic that it could kill a small child, regional councillors have been told.
10:02 AM | Gas management and ventilation at Pike River coalmine has been criticised by an expert mining panel investigating the November 2010 fatal blast.
9:28 AM | Roxburgh man Warren Bruce Johnston has pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife last year.
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