A 9-year-old Tauranga boy has been flown to Auckland's Starship Hospital after falling off his bike and hitting his head.

A bus reversing over a gas main in Whangarei sparked mass evacuations in the suburb of Kamo this morning.

Part of the stadium that will host the World Cup opener in Brazil next year collapsed today, causing significant damage and killing two people, authorities said.

Police have released the names of the two people who were killed in a motor vehicle crash at Bankside, south of Dunsandel, on Monday.

The driver of a vehicle that crashed in Samoa - killing two Kiwi men - is set to face charges later this week.

An Auckland man and his daughter who helped rescue a "totally unprepared" German tourist who'd slipped down Mt Ruapehu believes the young man would have died.

Friends of the four dead people say it was a miracle the collision over Auckland killed no one else.

Rutger Hale did not particularly like hot, sunny days. So cool, breezy conditions at Lake Hawea yesterday were perfect for his memorial service.

A teenager who fell 100m down Mt Ruapehu might have died if not for his quick thinking - and shoe laces.

A man is dead after a wall fell on him as he worked in his Blenheim garden yesterday.

A person is dead after a stone wall fell on them in Blenheim this afternoon.

Bungy pioneer AJ Hackett is lucky to be alive after a high-speed head-on road crash in Queenstown.

'I just saw the whole slab that just came down and all you could hear was the guys screaming.' A witness describes a half-built mall collapse where 50 are trapped.

Passengers on a steam train excursion from Paekakariki to Wanganui got more than a gentle ride on a piece of history when a car crashed and rolled on to the track a few hundred metres in front of them.

A man is dead after his car rolled multiple times yesterday.

A little boy lucky to survive a freak playground accident will soon be heading home.

A drunk driver breezed through a police breath test despite being almost four times over the drink-drive limit - and was killed in a crash shortly afterwards.

It was a moment of stupidity that almost cost Greg Watts his life - and made headlines around the world. We meet the man who fell from a motorised bar stool.

A teenager had just learned that a friend was on life support in hospital when he was struck by a car and killed just before Christmas last year, a coroner has found.

Police are looking for youths seen throwing rocks off a motorway overbridge at cars, as forensic tests get underway on an object that killed driver Rutger Hale.

Motorists are being told to expect delays around Matamata this morning after a heavy truck and trailer rolled in the early hours of this morning.