Police issue warning on firearm storage after boy injured when his father was retrieving an air rifle from a bedroom wardrobe.

Speed and alcohol are believed to have contributed to a fatal crash in Silverdale last night, police say.

Dean Dunbar has vowed to "fight to my last breath" to ensure his son's remains are recovered from the Pike River Mine.

Six weeks after his "miracle" survival when the helicopter he was in ploughed into a snow-covered mountainside, ski guide Mark Sedon feels "grateful and lucky" to be alive.

State Highway 25 remains closed, after a collision between a motorcycle and a car left one person dead.

Traffic on Auckland's Southern Motorway is now flowing free, after a cement truck and a car collided earlier this morning.

A man has been seriously injured after his car crashed into a tree in Wairarapa overnight.

A pedestrian is in a serious condition in hospital this morning after being hit by a taxi in Auckland overnight.

A skier on Mt Ruapehu who fell and slipped down a slope in rugged terrain had to be airlifted to safety today.

After more than five months and numerous appeals for information, a man has been charged with causing the death of an Auckland motorcyclist.

A cyclist has died in hospital more than two weeks after he was hit by a car in Waihi.

Thirteen people were treated at the scene of a crash yesterday after a car crossed the centre line in Waikato and ploughed into a vanload of people.

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force rescued passengers from a plane crash in Papua New Guinea.

Police are still in the dark as to what caused a Dutch visitor to lie down on a dimly-lit Wanaka road before he was run over by a taxi and killed last weekend.

A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a crash in the Hawkes Bay this morning.

A 51-year-old man died after being flung into the path of an oncoming vehicle in a crash in Waikato over the weekend.

A girl whose thumb was left dangling from her hand after a freak washing machine accident has a crack surgical team - and leeches - to thank for saving the digit.

As an inquest begins into the death of Rutger Hale from a mystery object that smashed through his car windscreen, his family say they believe someone knows what happened.

A Dutch pedestrian killed when he was hit by a taxi in Wanaka at the weekend may have been lying on the road at the time, police say.

A family had just finished saying grace at an 80th birthday when the deck they were on collapsed in West Auckland yesterday afternoon.

Police have not ruled out that a man struck and killed by a car in Wanaka overnight was lying in the road when he was hit.

Pranks can be fun and cause some great laughs at the time - but they can also go horribly wrong and end in serious or harmul consequences.

A young woman suffered numerous injuries when she was pinned by a vehicle that crashed in Manawatu yesterday.

The father of a young British backpacker who plunged to her death during a quad bike tour at Waitomo is pleased New Zealand tourism operators will be audited.

Three teenagers have been seriously injured after an explosion was sparked when a cigarette was lit while they were inhaling butane gas in a South Auckland house.

A teenager who died in an early morning crash on Monday was one of two siblings in the car - and his mother had to break the news to his brother in hospital.

Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital and will continue his treatment at home.

Two bloodied and panicked teenagers stumbled from a car wreck moments after a crash killed their 14-year-old mate, pleading, "Please help, please help."