Police divers searching for a woman who did not surface from a crayfish dive at the weekend have found a body.

A pedestrian remains in a critical condition after being hit by a car near a busy roundabout in Auckland yesterday.

Two people were taken to hospital after a car crashed into a power pole on Auckland's North Shore early this morning.

Chilean mountaineers have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago.

Two people were injured, one critically, after being hit by a car while crossing a road near a busy Auckland roundabout.

Two people were injured when a shuttle and trailer unit left the road and crashed into a ditch between Akaroa and Christchurch this afternoon.

A new study aimed at investigating shoulder injuries in cricket bowlers is under way at the University of Canterbury.

Onlookers who rushed to a crash scene on a rural road northwest of Auckland tried to comfort the driver before he died in his upturned car.

The family of a NZ citizen co-piloting the plane that crashed into a bridge and river in Taiwan are due to arrive back in the country this week, as new information is revealed.

Three people have died on the country's roads so far over the Waitangi weekend.

Police are working to establish whether a person killed in a car crash in Waitakere, Auckland today was the driver or a passenger.

A woman injured in a fatal van crash yesterday remains in a critical condition in Christchurch Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

A young child has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Tauranga today.

A van with six tourists that was involved in a fatal crash in Canterbury crossed the centre line and travelled through a paddock before rolling down a steep 40m bank.

A dad who blamed himself for the tragic death of his toddler son has a message of hope for the family whose baby died.

A mini-van with six tourists has crashed and a person is dead in North Canterbury.

A 62-year-old man has died in a single vehicle crash in Southland last night.

Residents in Auckland's Herne Bay found a crashed driver "spread-eagled" over a steep slope about 10m below an entrance to the Harbour Bridge around 2am yesterday.

About nine people each day receive head injuries from falls in their home, according to ACC claim data.

The captain of TransAsia Flight GE235 complained of "engine abnormalities" but was rebuffed when he asked for an urgent inspection of the plane shortly before its final take-off.

As 85-year-old Stewart Rundle fell more than 30m down a rocky cliff behind his beachfront home he had one thing on his mind - survival.

Minutes after an inferno ripped across a tinder-dry paddock behind her Christchurch home, Julia Walker thought she was going to die.

A young child who died in a crash in the western Bay of Plenty this weekend has been named by police.

A woman died from hypothermia after falling from a cliff and landing on rocks, the coroner has found.

One person was critically injured when a car and a roadworks truck collided on a motorway last night.

One person was critically injured when a car hit a road works truck on the Southern Motorway in Auckland tonight.

An unseen oil spill may have played a part in a crash in which a young child died after a car veered into a power pole and smashed into a paddock.

A fuel tanker carrying 13,000 litres of diesel has rolled, trapping a driver this morning and causing fuel to leak.