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".

New Zealand's road toll is standing at 98, 13 more than this time last year.

People inside two cars have escaped without serious injury after a fiery, high-speed crash on the outskirts of Invercargill overnight.

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.

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.

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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.

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

A man has died after the car he was driving left the road and crashed into a rock in Westport this afternoon.

The woman most seriously injured of seven hurt in Friday's head-on car crash near Gisborne remains critically ill in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital.

The man who died in a longboarding accident on Friday night has been identified as 21-year-old Tristan Hunter.

Police have named 62-year-old Kusum Rohit Kenia as the person who died in a Central Otago crash yesterday.

Up to six motorcyclists were involved in a crash in the Manawatu region this afternoon.

Two children were among those injured in a serious crash following a police pursuit in Gisborne this morning.

Dunedin Police would like to hear from anyone who saw a car narrowly avoid colliding with a bus before crashing into a parked car in Glenleith.

A person was thrown from a car smashed by a train in North Canterbury last night, at the same level crossing that multi-sport legend Steve Gurney was hit by a train five years ago.

Woman critical, man stable after the car they were in fell off a four-storey carpark building in Auckland suburb of Newmarket.

Teenager who tragically died in a house fire last week missed celebrating his 20th birthday by three days.

The man was hit while on the Tauranga Harbour Bridge, on State Highway 2, just after 4:30am on Friday.

A man is in a critical condition tonight after being hit by a truck in the early hours of this morning in Tauranga.

Traffic remains heavy on Auckland's southern motorway after a rubbish truck hit an overbridge, and there is no sign of it improving for the next few hours.

Bus carrying six children flips on its side in Wellington.