A 14-year-old boy who died when a car crashed into a power pole on Te Atatu Peninsula this morning, injuring two 16-year-olds, has been named.

One person is dead after a vehicle rolled in Waikato this morning.

A prominent real estate developer and his wife were aboard an unresponsive private plane which crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday.

Five people were taken to hospital after a crash in Kaiapoi, Canterbury, this morning.

A 14-year-old girl was injured when the vehicle she was in rolled near Takaka overnight.

A deer hunter has been hospitalised after his quad bike rolled and crushed him in remote forest overnight.

The worst-hit victim of the Eden Park fireworks debacle is now too scared to watch games live and is suffering "mental stress".

New Zealanders are safety conscious when it comes to seatbelts, a recent survey shows.

An elderly Tauranga man has died after being pinned between a car and a wall at his Greerton property.

A surgeon at Waikato Hospital was surprised to find a patient he was treating in the emergency department was the man he trained under nearly 20 years ago.

Peter Larmer's quiet Sunday at home on his Levin farm was shattered when a car crashed through two fences and a verandah post, and came to rest upside down on his lawn.

Alzheimer's sufferer Jie Rong Luo had a habit of wandering off on her own - so when her family put her in a rest home they asked that she not be left alone outside.

A woman suffered serious injuries when her car crashed down a 30-metre bank and landed in a swamp in South Taranaki.

A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a car in Wellington in the early hours of this morning.

Today is a special day for a little boy who has miraculously emerged from the aftermath of a car fire that nearly took his life.

Riandri De Bruyn will never forget the night of the crash. She and her friends were at a party in Auckland's Glen Innes, at the home of a friend of Riandri's older brother, Chris.

A serious crash has injured two people - one critically - and closed part of State Highway 1 just north of Warkworth.

A 30-year-old man has died following a motorbike crash in Dannevirke overnight.

Rugby officials say they are committed to "making good" with the three victims of a fireworks malfunction that fired shrapnel into the stands at Eden Park a week ago, but the cause is not likely to be revealed for a number of weeks.

When Jamie Trower took a wrong turn on Mt Ruapehu as a 9-year-old, his life became a complex mix of medical jargon and rehab.

Novice urges snow-lovers to take more care after brush with death on Mt Ruapehu.