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Taieri Gorge forest fire
Forest fire in Taieri Gorge.
GET TO THE CHOPPER: A helicopter carries a monsoon bucket over the burning forest.
Titahi Bay fire
DEVASTATING SIGHT: An aerial view shows the extent of the damage from the Titahi Bay blaze.
PM John Key's Statement to Parliament 2010
John Key delivers his Statement to Parliament for 2010, signalling tax changes, welfare and education reform and mining on conservation land.
John Key is congratulated after his Statement to Parliament for 2010.
Prince William's visit to New Zealand
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS: Prince William at Wellington Airport before departing New Zealand.
Sea Shepherd anti-whaling protest
Organiser Lisa Baines hails pedestrians on a megaphone during the protest.
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Fire at Auckland business
A fire at Modus Architectural Lighting in St Lukes, Auckland, sent a thick column of smoke over Auckland.
WELL ABLAZE: The fire at Modus Architectural Lighting, St Lukes.
House of Horrors
House of Horrors
HOME NO MORE: The Wainoni home where the bodies of Tisha Lowry and Rebecca Somerville were found is torn down.
Odd accidents 2009
Crazy incidents on (and off) NZ roads
ROCKED BUT NOT ROLLED: A tonne of rock in one of Wellington's Happy Valley Rd sculptures hangs over the crashed car.
Photos: Hone Harawira apology on Radio Waatea
Hone Harawira, right, with Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson.
Rimutaka hill crash
Rimutaka hill crash
HARD TO FIND: The car that fell 200 metres down the Rimutaka hill near Upper Hutt came to a stop in bush.
Funeral for Aisling Symes
FAMILY: Aisling's Parents Alan and Angela, along with their daughter Caitlin.
New Zealand's top 10 birds
The top ten birds of New Zealand for 2009 as voted by the public.
THE KIWI: A rare rowi kiwi. DOC call the kiwi: 'a biological oddity - it has whiskers like a cat's, it burrows like a badger, it kicks like a kangaroo and it smells like a forest mushroom.'
Search for Aisling
TRIBUTE: A boy lays a bouquet amid flowers and toys left outside the property which had belonged to the Symes family.
Tsunami in Samoa
The stench of rotting flesh is overpowering along the stretch of coast devastated by the Tsunami.
Sir Howard Morrison's tangi
Sir Howard's casket is carried into St Faith's Church, with his son Howard Morrison Jnr in the front.
Sir Howard Morrison photos
Sir Howard Morrison performs during Nelson's Sealord Night With the Stars in 2007.
Greenpeace protester photos
Greenpeace protesters on board the East Ambition, which was carrying palm kernel into Tauranga.
Undie 500 riots
Wilma McCorkindale took to the streets of Dunedin to photograph the mayhem that ensued from the third Undie 500 rally.
Police in riot gear during the Undie 500 car rally riots in Dunedin at the weekend.
Photo gallery: 24 hours in ED - 4am-midday
A Dominion Post team spent 24 hours in Wellington Hospital's emergency department.
A drunk patient lies asleep in his own urine.
Photo gallery: 24 hours in ED - 8pm-4am
A Dominion Post team spent 24 hours in Wellington Hospital's emergency department.
The Westpac Trust rescue helicopter arrives with an injured motorcyclist.
Photo gallery: Aircraft fossicker Tony Stevenson
Fossicker Tony Stevenson with some of of the WW2 aircraft parts at his Mystery Creek property near Hamilton.
The week in pictures - Aug 8 - 13
A lantern parade to mark the end of the Taranaki Festival of Arts, finishing at the Bowl of Brooklands.
The week in pictures: August 1 - 7
Police investigate the shooting of three people which took place on a grassed area at the junction of Farnham and Croyden avenues in Palmerston North.
Horror Waikato dog attack
A mother-of-two was attacked by eight pig dogs in an attack described by doctors as one of the most serious they had seen.
ROUNDED UP: Animal control officer Eric Teukura captures one of the dogs involved in the attack.
Wellington's south coast seals
A fur seal pup at the camp at Sinclair Head near Red Rocks on Wellington's south coast.
Pool plunge crash
An Arrowtown woman escaped with minor injuries after she drove through a fence, through a shed, struck a stone barbecue and ended up in a covered icy swimming pool.
An Arrowtown woman had a lucky escape after she went through a fence, through a shed, struck a stone bbq and flipped into a covered icy swimming pool.
Clayton Weatherston murder trial
The grandmother of Sophie Elliott is comforted by Garth McVicar from the Sensible Sentencing Trust outside the Christchurch High Court after Clayton Weatherston was found guilty by the jury of murdering Sophie Elliott.
Nai Yin Xue photo gallery
COURTROOM SCENE: Nai Yin Xue reacts angrily after he was found guilty of the murder of his wife An An Liu.
White out in Dunedin
White out in Dunedin
STAYING WARM: Jen Hancox stays warm while enjoying Dunedin's snowfall.
Fatal mauling at Zion Wildlife Park
A zookeeper was mauled to death by a white tiger at the troubled Zion Wildlife Park.
MAULED: South African zookeeper Dalu Mncube was mauled to death at Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens.
Funeral for slain policeman Len Snee
EMOTIONAL OCCASION: Injured policeman Grant Diver, who was shot by Jan Molenaar, attended fellow officer Len Snee's funeral in his hospital bed.
New Zealand ghost photos
Tony Wilson writes: This picture was taken with a digital camera at Tunnel Gully in Upper Hutt. We took it while on set for a Video clip we did with our band Civilian Down. It is quite obviously a person. I am the guitarist to the left and I'm sure that I would have noticed an old man walking through our video shoot.
Ellerslie Flower Show
Gold Medal winning floral art from Patricia Proctor Design in the Floral Art Marque at the Ellerslie International Flower Show.
The Bain family
The members of the Bain family, whose murder David Bain is being retried for.
DAVID BAIN: Accused of murdering five members of his family.
David Bain retrial gallery
CLOSING ARGUMENTS: Michael Reed during his closing address for the defence.
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