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.

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.

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.

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.

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.