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Holiday road toll now double last year's
Police say alcohol and speed are coming through as significant contributors to the holiday road.
Police say alcohol and speed are coming through as significant contributors to the holiday road.
New Zealand is being asked to introduce safety standards for blinds to stop children being hurt or even killed in the cords.
The family of a New Zealander who died trying to save a dive boat during a storm is travelling to the California island he called home.
Holiday road toll rises to 14 as family and friends mourn vibrant young woman who became first road death of 2015.
Ben Sargent has been remembered as a fun-loving, sporting, and well-loved youngster with his whole life ahead of him.
A young man who died trying to jump from a light pole into a Gisborne swimming pool had spent the afternoon playing football and enjoying a few drinks with friends.
The search area was widened because surveillance planes could not see tiny fragments of wreckage in choppy waters. And families, once again, did not know how or why their loved ones died.
A Chinese student who died in a Boxing Day smash in Southland has been named by police as the holiday road toll rises to seven.
Airbus has rushed two specialists to Jakarta to assist in the investigation of the disappeared A320 airliner operated by AirAsia, the budget carrier that rose from almost nothing in 2001 to be its biggest customer.
Police are still looking for a boat which was swamped while crossing the Manukau Bar in Auckland this afternoon, causing the deaths of two people.
A fatal crash involving a car and truck on State Highway 1 between Amberley and Kaikoura in Canterbury has taken the Christmas road toll to seven.
A surfer who died at a beach on Boxing Day has been described as an "inspiration" to other divers in his dive club.
A second person involved in a collision with a tanker truck in Bay of Plenty yesterday has died, bringing to holiday road toll to six.
Jane Watts said last goodbyes to her severely injured husband five times and could only have dreamed she would spend another Christmas with him.
Tributes are flowing for the brave pilot who made a split-second decision to slam into water instead of crash-landing among hundreds of beach-goers at Raglan.
The woman, in her 20s, fell down a steep cliff and into the river below, striking her head on the way down.
A man who died at a south Auckland beach yesterday was trying out a new surf board he received as a Christmas present.
Woman on board small plane that spluttered and crashed into Raglan harbour yesterday, narrowly avoiding hundreds of holidaymakers.
An elderly couple remain in a serious condition in Tauranga Hospital, following a crash in the Bay of Plenty yesterday.
A man has died and two others have been seriously injured in the first fatal crash of New Zealand's Christmas and New Year road toll period.
A man was trapped in a wreck for over an hour after a crash between a campervan and a car.
Family members of four people killed in a pre-Christmas crash have visited the scene and performed a traditional Asian blessing.
The two children killed in a Northland crash which also killed two men were high achievers who often won awards.
Almost a year after being hit while riding her bike, Samantha Robertson has swapped cycling for sheep riding.
The four people who died in a horrific crash on State Highway One yesterday when a Range Rover did a U-turn into the path of a logging truck have been named.
Police are urging care on the roads over the holidays as a four-car crash leaves one person critically injured.