Hanging out with grandma, going to the toilet and taking part in a "super hero activity" are among the craziest claims ACC has had to fork out millions for.

Two people are dead and seven injured following a crash between Rotorua and Taupo involving a milk tanker and a van.

A man is lucky to be alive after he was nearly crushed by a concrete slab at a demolition site this afternoon.

A 55-tonne crane and a boat have toppled and crashed into a North Shore house.

Motorists driving anywhere over the posted speed limit could land themselves a fine, as police do away with the notion of a "speed tolerance" for the summer period

Cricketer Phil Hughes’ condition remains critical after he underwent further scans on Wednesday.

A young man who was behind the wheel of a ute that hit a commuter train in Wairarapa, killing his 15-year-old girlfriend, has been sentenced to 200 hours' community service.

A woman in Melbourne hanging washing in her garden suddenly found herself in a 9ft hole, swimming for her life for half an hour as she shouted for help.

Three heroes have been honoured for their bravery after they jumped into a freezing stream to rescue the passengers of a submerged car near Waimate.

One person has died after a crash between a car and truck near Christchurch this afternoon.

Police have named the woman killed in a crash outside Whangarei on Friday afternoon as mother-of-three Josephine Tipene.

A photo of a woman sitting on a jet ski as it was towed by a truck on Auckland’s North-Western motorway is a hoax.

A man was injured after his rifle accidentally went off while he was on a hunting trip near Murchison.

Two people are dead and two others critically and seriously injured after a cluster of car crashes in Canterbury overnight.

The driver of a grey hatchback is being sought following a collision with a motorbike in Rotorua this morning.

A grandfather was killed in a “horrific” accident after his future son-in-law accidentally trapped him in an industrial oven that reached temperatures of 280C.

A toddler who died yesterday after she was hit by a car driven by a relative in her West Auckland driveway has now been named by police.

The death of a 22-year-old student who fell from his skateboard and suffered a fatal head injury has been referred to the coroner.

A coroner says law changes are urgently needed to get more dangerous drivers off the road, after an inept foreign driver caused a crash killing two motorcyclists.

A coroner has made recommendations about the usage of power tools after a builder died when a cutting tool disc flew in to his abdomen.

A man being treated for drinking petrol was killed after he jumped from an ambulance and into the path of a truck in the Hawkes Bay, police say.

An inspection of a bus has shown there were no mechanical faults to cause it to crash into a ditch with 50 school children on board.

A Chinese driver whose rental car collided with another vehicle near Queenstown was a "classic case" of why tourists should sit a driving test, a judge says.

A farmer has suffered serious injuries after he was attacked by a cow in Opotiki.

A knife flew out of a man's pocket and became stuck in his eye when he was having a brain scan.

A Hawke's Bay mechanic says he found two women - one unresponsive, the other trapped and covered in blood - as he rushed to the scene of a serious crash near Hastings yesterday.

The mother of a little boy killed in a house fire is unaware her son is dead and has missed his funeral.

European space engineers hope to carry out carefully programmed manoeuvres over the coming hours and days to rescue the Philae lander from its precarious position on the comet.