An elderly man has been flown to hospital after he tripped at his Hawkes Bay home and fell through a plate glass window.

A man who saved the life of a toddler trapped in a car submerged in a Nelson river has been hailed as a hero.

Four bystanders plunged into a freezing creek to rescue a family trapped in a submerged car.

You know it's big when they get special graphics made, crashing and zipping across the TV with a flashy soundtrack to match.

A woman has died and two others injured when the car they were in submerged in Saltwater Creek in Nelson.

An American news broadcast were fooled in to announcing the incorrect names of the pilots on board the San Francisco plane crash.

A woman was lucky to get cellphone reception and call for help after her car became trapped in a Hawkes Bay river yesterday morning.

The president of the company involved in the Canadian rail disaster which has killed 50 is a New Zealand honorary consul in America.

The mystery of why an experienced truck driver plummeted 20m off a Kaingaroa Forest road is unlikely to be solved, a coroner has warned.

A man dived into freezing waters to try to save a friend who was swept away after falling off a Raglan pier.

A 19-year-old woman is seriously injured after she was crushed against a house by a car in west Auckland last night.

Police are appealing for sightings of a man in the minutes before he was hit by a car in Christchurch tonight.

A cyclist who was knocked over by a passing motorist while riding with a group of friends near Hamilton has died of his injuries.

The survivor of a 13-storey fall from an Auckland city apartment building has been seen out and about just days after he was released from hospital.

A Hamilton cyclist was last night battling for his life after an accident with a car that saw him thrown into a windscreen before rebounding back into a group he was riding with.

When a child swallows a battery, it's a race against the clock to diagnose and remove the device before it breaks down inside the body within two hours.

One person has died and two others injured in a single car crash near Gisborne tonight.

A Dunedin woman was tight-lipped when she rang 111, after mistakenly gluing her lips together.

The widow of a young father killed in a hedge-trimming accident was left wondering how she was going to tell her young son that his "hero" dad wasn't coming home.

Police have named the Culverden man killed in a freak hedge trimming accident in North Canterbury earlier today.

Accidents on the mountains are costing Kiwis a mountain of money, according to latest figures by ACC.