A 14-year-old boy has been arrested following a hit-and-run incident in the Wellington region last week.

A 19-year-old has been taken to hospital after she sustained burns to her face at a restaurant.

Waikato police have released the name of an American woman who was killed in a car crash near Matamata on Monday.

Jason Matahiki suffered a serious workplace injury when a meat hook went through the side of his head while working at the Affco NZ Rangiuru plant.

A logging truck became airborne and shunted a hatchback 20m off the road in a collision that left a 22-year-old dead and her parents injured near Matamata.

A person is dead as emergency services deal with two serious truck crashes in the North Island this morning.

Two people have been freed from the wreckage of a crash that closed a major Wellington road this morning.

An elderly Opotiki man remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital after crashing his campervan near Matamata yesterday.

A man was killed in the early hours of this morning after being hit by a city-bound train in the Christchurch suburb of Belfast.

It has taken eight months but Mark Somervell is finally walking again. Now, he has been fitted with a prosthetic leg.

Twisted ankles, broken bones and other school holiday mishaps cost millions of dollars each year.

A young Tauranga girl has died when she was hit by a four wheel drive while riding her bike.

An avoidable summertime "disease" is killing Kiwi blokes and is caused by men who back themselves beyond their abilities in the water, says an expert.

A car has crashed down a bank off Maraetai Dr in east Auckland, injuring five people.

Woman cyclist in serious but stable condition after being pinned under a truck.

A multi-vehicle crash is causing major problems on Auckland's north-western motorway today.

A motorcyclist has died after striking a road barrier on State Highway One in the Waikato this morning.

The girlfriend of a longboarder who died when he was struck by a car says the driver remains a dear friend and has "nothing to apologise for".

A man is dead after a motorcycle crash near Dairy Flat, north of Auckland, a police spokesman confirmed early this morning.

A 72-year-old Waikato man has died after cutting himself with an angle grinder on a farm near Masterton.

Former Gore mayor Ian Tulloch is out of intensive care and "on track to begin rehabilitation", his family says.

A man who fell badly while performing a motorcycle jump is believed to have suffered multiple leg fractures.

Emergency services are responding to what is understood to be a serious car crash near Whanganui.

Looking at a photo taken on their wedding day, Natasha Finau is suddenly lost in a distant memory.

A Wellington mother and her two-week-old baby were uninjured when the car she was driving fell several metres down a bank.

A Givealittle page has been set up for a woman seriously hurt in a Good Friday car crash in Gisborne which landed seven people in hospital.

The 4-year-old boy who was in serious condition after a head-on car crash near Gisborne on Good Friday remains in hospital.

Students at a Tuakau high school, south of Auckland, are mourning the death of a classmate who drowned at the Hunua Falls on Easter Monday.

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Video interview with parents Simon & Nerolie Curran, who's 5 year-old daughter Jasmine suffered a cardiac arrest while on a family holiday.