A young Snow Planet employee was taken to hospital after spending an hour trapped in a machine with his arm caught in a conveyer belt.

Families of Pike River mine victims say they will ensure that recommendations from the health and safety taskforce are acted on.

Two of New Zealand's top musicians are mourning a relative who died after being knocked down at a dangerous Auckland road crossing on her way to a karaoke club night.

An independent taskforce review of NZ's workplace health and safety has recommended sweeping changes, and says the current system has "significant weaknesses''.

A man has told of a teenage boy's desperate attempts to get help for his girlfriend who died when the car they were in crashed this morning.

More than a third of farm fatalities involve quad bikes, and the number of injuries from quad bikes is increasing at an "alarming'' rate, according to a new study.

The owners of a house where a deck collapsed, sending about 20 people and a hot barbecue plummeting to the ground, say it was lucky no one was killed.

A Morrinsville nurse who was crushed by a car as she jogged along a residential street had been planning a party for her daughter's 13th birthday this week.

Safety is being reviewed at Hunua Falls following the death of a tourist at the Auckland beauty spot yesterday.

A 20-year-old tourist has drowned at an Auckland beauty spot. The Indian national was attempting to cross the front of the Hunua Falls, south-east of Auckland.

Two people have suffered moderate injuries after their vehicle crashed in Northland this morning, trapping one of the occupants.

A refrigerated truck and trailer carrying meat and vegetables has rolled in south Otago, blocking State Highway 1.

Thinking her husband was dead, Nina Bartlett scrambled out of bed to get to her newborn baby seconds after a stolen car ploughed through their bedroom at 150km/h.

A stolen car sought by police in connection with an assault ploughed into a large road sign pole in Hamilton, critically injuring a teenager.

The mother of Matthew Smith has extended her "heartfelt thanks" to those who tried to revive her 10-year-old son when he was electrocuted at the family home.

Two men are recovering from burns after the power pylon they were working on exploded, cutting electricity to nearly 800 homes.

An 83-year-old woman driver died after her BMW and a stock truck collided on the outskirts of Hamilton yesterday afternoon.

Two linesmen have suffered superficial burns in an explosion in Warkworth, north of Auckland.

A driver died after their car collided with a stock truck in Hamilton this afternoon.

A 12-year-old bundled newborn twins and another baby through thick black smoke to safety after a pot sterilising bottles sparked a fire in an upper-storey flat.

The number of injury compensation claims accepted from netball players has increased sharply, far outstripping the rise in the number of people playing the sport.

Kiwi documentary maker Rob Harley was one of the first journalists to get close to the Texas fertiliser plant after the explosion.