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The class B drug gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) is known as "coma in a bottle" (file pic)

Huntly drug lab bust a first - police

Police say they have busted the first known New Zealand lab producing a date-rape drug known as "coma in a bottle".

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Police say a man robbed a dairy while his wife and baby waited in a getaway car (file)

Baby in dairy robbery getaway car - police

A man allegedly tried to rob two Ngaruawahia dairies at gunpoint while a 11-month-old baby and its teen parents waited in the getaway car, police say.

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Meg Theriault

Injured student's family thank police, emergency services

The parents of an American student, injured in a crash on the weekend that killed three others, have arrived in New Zealand.

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Rescued climber Ivan Camponogara

Students saved from icy, dark Mt Ngaruahoe video

Just hours after yesterday’s tragedy crash near Turangi, emergency services rescued another group of American university students.

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Michelle and Kevin O'Brien helped the victims of yesterday's car crash

Witness and 8yo daughter first on scene at horror crash video

A former ambulance officer was first on the scene at the Tongariro crash yesterday morning that killed three Boston University students.

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Boston University students Daniela Lekhno, Roch Jauberty and Austin Brashears were killed in the crash

Taupo crash deaths ‘tragic’ – AA

The AA is calling the deaths of three US exchange students in a van crash near Taupo a "tragic loss of young life".

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Police have confirmed there were fatalities

Three students killed in Tongariro crash

A fatal road accident this morning near Tongariro has left three people dead and another seriously injured.

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Ngati Tuwharetoa is threatening legal action against the Government over its plan to sell state own assets

Powerful tribe threatens legal action over asset sales video

Powerful North Island iwi Ngati Tuwharetoa is threatening legal action against the Government over its plan to sell state own assets.

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Mr Tunnicliffe died on April 28, two weeks after the incident

21yo charged with Turangi man's murder

A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of Tokaanu man Gordon Alfred Tunnicliffe, 64.

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Whakapapa is more widely known as a skiing destination  (file pic)

Whakapapa tops world’s worst place names

The Central North Island village of Whakapapa has been judged the worst place name in the world.

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Deep quake near Taupo, no damage reported

A moderately powerful earthquake has rocked parts of the central North Island.

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Sentencing delayed for tourist's rapist

The man who kidnapped and raped a French tourist on the Napier-Taupo highway last year will now be sentenced in July.

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Tongariro National Park (file pic)

Trampers were close to death: rescuer

Some of the 16 people who had to be rescued from Mt Tongariro on Saturday were shaking, hysterical and close to dying from hypothermia.

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