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.

A woman is dead and five others injured after a van rolled some 30m down a bank onto train tracks in the central South Island this morning, police say.

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.

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

No-one came to 72-year-old Don Powle aid when he slipped and broke his arm outside the bustling Britomart Train Station in Auckland - an example of the 'bystander effect'.

This is the story of New Zealanders Marty Schmidt and his son Denali, who died trying to summit the world's most dangerous mountain.

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.

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.

A young man was killed when the off-road buggy he was in crashed in a dry bed of the Waimakariri River this afternoon.

A 3-year-old boy has woken from a three-week coma after suffering horrific head injuries in a fall at an Auckland playground.

Sequoia Di Angelo knows exactly why her father and brother continued up treacherous K2 while the rest of the team retreated.

One person has died after crashing their car in a ditch overnight. Police found the man, near Te Te Aroha in the Matamata-Piako district, Waikato just after midnight.