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.

A man has been taken to hospital after getting his legs caught underneath a digger in Te Awamutu today.

A man is in critical condition after falling from a truck at a wharf onto a boat below.

A 9-year-old child has been injured in a crash involving a car and truck north of Auckland this morning.

Another horror weekend on the water has seen this year's drowning toll hit 30 after two people died and three were taken to hospital.

Surviving a horror boat accident which claimed the life of a friend has completely changed New Zealand woman Sarra Hunter-Weston's outlook on life.

An 18-month-old boy who was rescued from the Hauraki Gulf two days ago is still critically ill in hospital.

The bodies of two German teens killed when the car they were in was crushed by a giant beech tree in Fiordland have arrived home.

Denise Robinson Winskill was killed when her husband accidentally ran over her in his ute in October 2013.

Hemi James Rapaea "is of no fixed abode" and was apparently picked up by the driver as he was hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Napier.

A member of a diving party says conditions were perfect for night-time diving when two men drowned at Great Barrier Island.

The names of two men who died off Great Barrier Island and were thought to have been freediving at night when they disappeared can now be reported.

Just a block away from where she died, Chantelle Giles was farewelled in Patea today.

Across the country flowers are being left out with the milk for tanker drivers to collect in memory of Michael Fairclough.

A Hamilton woman was killed instantly after losing control of her car in her driveway, speeding off and driving it through her neighbour's fence.

Elyse Brown is a quiet little girl, but her father says he'll make sure they keep talking about her mother and brother, who died in a horror car crash near Te Kuiti last week.

The husband of a woman killed in a head-on car crash in Putaruru last week has been charged in relation to her death.

One person is dead and another is in serious condition after a two vehicle crash on State Highway 14, west of Whangarei, police said.

A father has shared memories of his "shining star" who was killed in head-on collision.

One person has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a two vehicle crash at Kaeo in Northland.

Death toll at 64 so far this year, an increase of 16 per cent compared with 2015.

A woman was trapped in her car for over an hour after a crash in Dairy Flat this evening.