Northbound Auckland traffic backed up beyond Mt Wellington after a six-car crash at Spaghetti Junction blocked several lanes yesterday.

A logging truck driver who led police on a "bizarre" high-speed chase after being pepper-sprayed was eventually subdued with a Taser.

The logging truck driver who led police on a "bizarre" high-speed chase after being pepper-sprayed is now facing nine charges.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume this morning but bad weather has delayed search teams.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume tomorrow.

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

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.

Nearly two years after an Australian tourist died in a quad bike accident, the negligent operator has walked away without a conviction or having to pay a cent.

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.

A woman was critically injured when she rode her bike into a concrete wall on a steep Wellington hill this morning.

A worker whose angle grinder kicked back and gouged his face is lucky to be alive, rescuers say.

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.