Commuters in and around Auckland are being urged to show patience as traffic is hindered by several gridlocks.

Two motorcyclists are injured after their vehicles crashed in Taranaki today.

The driver of a car was lucky to escape alive after colliding with a tree this morning.

She has stood on a rake, fallen down stairs, cut her finger cooking and smashed her head on the corner of a window, but Janet Uttinger says she's not accident prone.

The parents of an Auckland woman who died with her partner on a climbing trip to Mt Taranaki have spoken for the first time of the "big gap" left in their lives.

A lumber yard worker has been helicoptered to hospital after being trapped by a forklift in Kawerau this morning.

Paralysed cyclist David Keys has resigned himself to the fact life as he knew it has ended, days after crashing his bike into a sinkhole in Waihi.

An unnamed ACC employee was paid over $800,000 last year. So who is this person - likely NZ's highest paid public servant?

Australian health insurer Medibank has won a bid to manage sexual abuse claims for the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

The search for a Warkworth fisherman who has been missing for more than a week is continuing.

Relatives of a man who broke his neck riding his bike into a Waihi sink-hole fear he will remain a paraplegic with a slim chance of much rehabilitation.

The father of a Christchurch woman killed in a car crash on Friday night says the family are working through their "shock and grief" at the loss of his daughter.

A keen boatie died in a horror towing accident in his driveway on the Kapiti Coast yesterday.

A dog alerted a council worker to a man who was lying seriously injured after riding his bike into a sink hole in Waihi.

An elderly man has been badly burnt on an island off the Bay of Plenty coast today.

School friends of Nick Stubbs say they'll keep searching the sea everyday until they find their mate.

When Nick Stubbs and a mate left Martins Bay near Warkworth in a red fibreglass boat at 5pm on Tuesday, he told loved ones they 'wouldn't be long'.

A woman has died and a man is critically injured following a crash in Whanganui this morning.

The search for a second fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Martins Bay north of Auckland continued this afternoon after one body was located.

Swedish model Anna Maria Mostrom has been left brain dead following a collision with a bus last week.

Truck driver Shane Runga was on his way to pick up his last load of the day when he says he came across a car driving towards him on his side of the road.