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Floodwaters have left about 150 schoolchildren stranded, a person has disappeared in a river and a slip has cut off six west Auckland families. Video

The Waikato woman and her four young children are safe and well, police say.

A man has been killed after two cars crashed head-on in South Waikato, closing State Highway 1.

Fans heading to Auckland for tonight's concert are being warned to expect delays with severe congestion on SH1 and a crash in Waikato.

Police say it is a miracle no-one died, after Rhys Warren was found guilty of shooting and wounding four officers.

A railway crossing where a person died in a crash between a car and a freight train yesterday is due for an upgrade this year.

A New Zealand rugby player in France who was being detained following a rape complaint has been released from police custody pending further investigations.

A woman is in a critical condition after going to the aid of a swimmer off a Waikato beach.

A person has been killed in a crash between a car and a freight train at a level crossing near Morrinsville.

Two New Zealanders are among a group of six rugby players who were held by French police after a young woman alleged she was raped after meeting them in a nightclub, reports say.

The US Embassy refuses to lift immunity for a diplomat who left a Lower Hutt house with a broken nose and black eye.

A third person has died following this morning's house fire on a dairy farm near Taupō.

A woman and an infant died in an early morning house fire near Taupō, and three others were flown to hospital.

Shopkeepers are installing bollards and metal shutters to stop criminals ram-raiding their stores. Video

Thieves armed with baseball bats drove a car through the front doors of a Waikato petrol station in an early morning robbery.

Heavy rain is creating havoc, flooding houses and causing slips in Auckland and surface flooding in Wellington. Here's what you need to know.

A woman has been arrested and charged with murder after a man was killed in Hamilton.

A man has had to be rescued from his flooded car, a music festival has been partly evacuated and roads have closed in the Coromandel after record-breaking rainfalls.

Thunderstorms in Northland have cut power briefly to some areas and forced a flight to return to Auckland, with a flood warning in place for Kaeo and Ngunguru.

Tear gas was not an option when an armed police team moved into a house at the centre of a siege near Kawerau a year ago, a court has been told.