A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.

A 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.

A 72-year-old suffered serious injuries when his van plunged 150 metres down a bank in Hawkes Bay.

A seriously injured driver lay trapped in his crashed truck across railway lines for more than an hour in Waikato last night.

A man is in hospital after his light truck crashed through a bridge barrier and tumbled four metres onto a stream bank in the Hawkes Bay.

Emily Mott woke up feeling dizzy days after falling off a quad bike and hitting her head on a rock while working on a dairy farm near Dannevirke.

Was I hit by a car, Mum? Those were the first words Danielle Franklin heard her 9-year-old son say.

A fisherman drowned and a kite-surfer may be lost at sea after two searches off the coast of Taranaki yesterday afternoon.

The heartbroken husband of a young New Zealand-based doctor who died while scuba diving in Vanuatu is vowing to fight for answers.

Kerre McIvor says the media must stop inferring that police are somehow at fault with pursuits that end tragically.

Police say speed and alcohol were factors in a crash that claimed the lives of three young men in Auckland this morning.

A person has been killed and another seriously injured at the Hanmer Rally today.

Safety fears were raised months ago over the super-fast yacht in which Olympic gold-medallist Andrew Simpson died, it was revealed last night.

An inquiry into the deaths of three people following a police pursuit found the chase should have been abandoned earlier, and the officer did not fully comply with policy.

One person has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries following a collision in Paekakariki, north of Porirua.

A 4-year-old boy had his arm stuck in a Coca-Cola vending machine for 45 minutes as his grandmother feared he'd crushed his fingers.

A helicopter which went down in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour was the first of its kind and was due to feature in a helicopter expo in Russia in a few days.

Editorial: New Zealand must be very careful to ensure it is seen as a place where adventure can be had without an undue endangering of life.

The Civil Aviation Authority may have been able to pursue legal action against the pilot involved in the Fox Glacier tragedy had he survived, but it was unable to lay charges against the company responsible for the ill-fated operation.

The father of a British man killed in the Fox Glacier tragedy says the Government has failed to improve the safety of adventure tourism and New Zealand remains too dangerous.

A skydiving plane carrying nine people was over the allowable weight limit and unbalanced when it plummeted to the ground and burst into flames, the Coroner says.