Stewart and Sonja Goodsir were on the water heading home after a day's fishing when they noticed the smoke.

The company responsible for a high ropes course where an Auckland man died has been fined $24,500 and ordered to pay the man's family $80,000 reparation.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

One person has died tonight after a car crash just south of Tokoroa on State Highway 1.

A man has died after falling nine metres down a river bank while climbing a swing rope near Palmerston North tonight.

Two teenagers who pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of their friend in an illegal west Auckland street race will not go to jail.

A young Olympic snowboarding hopeful who was killed in a fiery car crash on Sunday would have celebrated his 18th birthday today.

Witnesses have described a woman's incredible courage after her leg was almost severed by the rear tray of a reversing truck.

Police have admitted they put out incorrect information about an incident where a female pedestrian was hit by a truck outside an Auckland supermarket.

A "bright and talented" teenage snowboarder killed in a fiery car crash was a contender for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

A three-vehicle crash has partially closed a Northland highway this morning after a truck and trailer rolled south of Kawakawa.

A motorcyclist is dead after crashing near Tauranga this afternoon.

A young mother was killed in front of her 2-year-old son in an accident that left her trapped in the doors of a lift in a block of flats in Moscow.

A Napier primary school is cracking down on scooter safety after one of their 6-year-old students lost an eye in an accident at home.

A school principal prevented a likely fatal accident by jumping into a 29-tonne truck veering across State Highway 1 after its driver had passed out at the wheel.

After the Accident Compensation Corporation refused to pay for treating some of her injuries, Yahaloma Hochman feels her life is no longer worth living.

'I've been sleeping.' 10-year-old cyclist Samantha Robertson is aware of how close she came to death in a crash with a car that left her in an induced coma.

A French tourist has admitted her role in a car crash that claimed the life of an unborn child on Sunday night.

A Kaitaia family were on their way to Gisborne to see if they could start a new life there when the car crashed into an oncoming truck, fatally injuring a 5-month-old baby.

A pensioner has appeared in court charged in connection with an accident in which a little boy was killed in a lawnmowing accident in Hastings.

The driver of the truck that collided with a school bus this morning has been taken to Tauranga Hospital.

A young couple are in hospital after a horrific car accident that killed their unborn baby and left the mother fighting for her life.

A father frantically smashed car windows to get to his young children after the vehicle, which he had been following, crashed head-on with a truck.