1Three bodies have been recovered and a fourth person remains missing after a rafting accident on the Tongariro River yesterday.
2A commercial fisherman and two teenage boys spent over two hours in the sea, ten kilometres off the Taranaki coast today, after their boat was sunk by a freak wave.
3Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham has been re-elected unopposed as the leader of the renamed New Zealand Democratic Party.
4Lower Hutt Police are seeking help from the public to find the man who robbed a branch of the TAB at gunpoint last night.
5Nine thousand Black South African gold miners have gone on strike as rioting continues in the country's Black townships. Meanwhile, funerals have been taking place for the victims of the recent unrest.
6An acute shortage of transport is still hampering the distribution of food aid to famine victims in Ethiopia.
7Peace campaigner Owen Wilkes has told a conference that New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance is actually giving the United States a better foreign policy deal than it had with New Zealand before.