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.

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.

An 8-year-old Tauranga girl who received serious head injuries after being kicked by a horse underwent surgery at Starship Hospital yesterday.

The body of a missing man whose dinghy was found in an Invercargill river has been recovered.

The mother of a 2-year-old says it is a miracle her son was not more badly injured after the boom from loud fireworks shattered her bedroom window and rained glass down on him.

Two men miraculously survived a helicopter crash north of Auckland yesterday - the second time one of the pilots has crashed in 19 months.

A 6-year-old boy died during a horror day on North Island roads yesterday.

A motorcycle rider has died following a collision with a car near Cambridge this afternoon.

A man has been critically injured after being struck by a car in Tokoroa today.

Two people have been injured following a helicopter crash in Rodney, north of Auckland.

A man is dead after his motorbike collided with a ten tonne truck last night.

A motorcyclist was killed when his bike and a truck collided near Tauranga this evening.

The three tourists from Hong Kong were killed when their rental van and a truck and trailer unit collided in Central Otago.

A teenage girl swam ashore and ran 2km across a remote and rugged shoreline to call for help after the boat she was on capsized on the North Island's East Coast this morning.