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.

Police have reopened a road following a serious crash in Auckland last night.

An elderly NZ Post rural mail contractor in Hokitika was seriously injured after being run over by her own vehicle last night.

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.

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.

A slab of frozen sausages and a mercy dash through peak-hour traffic on Auckland's motorways in a police car saved the day after a man severed his finger while using a bench saw.

A person has died in a crash between a car and a truck on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

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 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.

A man in his 60s has died in a crash on the Northern Motorway, north of Auckland.

Police have named two Pakistani men who died in a truck crash on the Crown Range Road, Queenstown, yesterday.

A 23-year-old woman accused of faking cancer after raising $15,000 on donation website Givealittle has been hospitalised following a home attack.

Police are investigating whether another vehicle was involved in the crash which flipped a rubbish truck, killing its driver.

A deadly truck crash on Auckland's Southwestern Motorway caused havoc for commuters during yesterday evening's rush hour, halting traffic in both directions.

It was 5.30 in the morning when this truck crashed over a bank and became entangled in vegetation. Rescue workers are surprised the driver is still alive.