A man is dead after being hit by a stream train while trying to photograph it yesterday. The taken to Greymouth Base Hospital with serious head injuries after the accident.

A member of a rugby team is being hailed as a heroine after she saved the life of a man seriously injured in one of three crashes that caused chaos on State Highway 1 yesterday.

Hugh Foster faces an eight-week hospital stay after two alleged bank robbers in a stolen car smashed into the back of his ute on the Southern Motorway.

Sitting next to his dead colleague as their work van started filling with water after plunging off a bridge, Ashley Donkersley thought he was going to die.

A motorist temporarily blinded by sun-strike crashed into the back of a slow moving truck and trailer unit today, leaving him with spinal injuries and lacerations.

Police are at the scene of a two car crash near Hamurana on the outskirts of Rotorua where one person had to be cut free of the wreckage.

Two women are dead after separate crashes on one South Island alpine highway yesterday.

Two people are dead after the van they were in left the road north-west of Auckland early this morning.

When you find out someone you love is hurt, the world contracts itself inwards. In that instant, the only thing that matters is the crisis unfolding before you. Nothing existed before it.

A motorist who collided with a group of Hamilton cyclists last month, killing one of them and injuring two, will meet his victims' families.

Searchers are unsure of the source of two plastic containers, found today in the hunt for the missing yacht Nina.

Two men, including a police officer, who dove into icy waters to help rescue a passenger from a Tauranga Bridge plunge have spoken about their ordeal.

A bus carrying 27 passengers rolled last night as its driver apparently tried to avoid a truck, leaving six people in hospital.

Images from Marty and Delani Schmidt's attempted climb of K2.

A man was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after he fell up to 9m through the roof of a factory at the Port of Tauranga last night.

The pregnant partner of a man killed when his van plunged off a highway bridge in Tauranga will remember him as the "best kind of dad".

The 11-year-old Westport boy killed in a freak cycling accident on the weekend while biking with school mates died "doing what he loved'', his family said today.

A police officer risked his own life to save a person from a river after a vehicle went off a bridge near Tauranga this evening.

A Westport boy died after suffering a serious throat injury in a fall from his bicycle in Westport.

A 21-year-old Christchurch man killed while riding in a buggy yesterday afternoon may not have been wearing a seat belt.