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.

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'.

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 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.

A toddler whose heart stopped after he choked on a sandwich at the home of an Auckland childcare worker should be celebrating his second birthday today.

A friend of speedwing flyer Sean Kerridge has told an inquest he believes the thrill-seeker may've felt pressure to undertake the flight that killed him.

"I could feel every bloody bump on the road," said the farmer who broke his neck in a 4m fall - then mounted his quadbike and rode home.