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.

The main highway north of Balclutha remains closed this morning after a head-on crash in which a woman was killed and another seriously injured.

One person has died and another has been airlifted to hospital with serious chest injuries following a two-car crash in Otago tonight.

An Auckland roofing company fined $18,000 after a worker seriously hurt himself when he fell from a two-storey building.

A five-year-old girl has been flown to Middlemore Hospital with burn injuries after the dress she was wearing went up in flames when she came too close to a nearby gas heater.

A female wing walker and her stunt pilot were killed when their plane crashed into the ground and exploded into flames.

Broadcaster John Tamihere raced to a fatal car crash in central Auckland yesterday after hearing his wife's son was hurt.

The father of 2-year-old New Zealand triplets who died in a Qatar mall fire just over a year ago has expressed his relief at guilty verdicts in the case.

Motorists driving over the Kaimai Ranges in Bay of Plenty are being urged to take extra care this morning, after a large amount of diesel spilled onto the road.

The father of the British man who stunned the world by surviving a 15-floor fall from an Auckland high rise says the fact his son is still alive is nothing short of a miracle.

Soup, slippers, umbrellas, heaters and firewood aren't as comforting on a cold winter's day as you'd like, with all also contributing to nasty injuries, ACC warns.

The first words from a young Briton who survived a fall from the 15th floor of an Auckland city apartment block were "what an idiot".

An 11-year-old boy who ran 6km in the dark to get help for his dad after a car crash will be protected from reading a coroner's comments that praise his heroic actions.

The wreckage of a car crash that killed 18-year-old Oliver Steven Mills lay unnoticed for up to nine hours in a water-filled ditch early yesterday morning.

A young Briton who survived a fall from the 15th floor of an Auckland city apartment block is expected to make a full recovery.

A crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway has killed a man and caused chaos for commuters.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after falling from the 15th floor of an Auckland apartment building because he had locked himself out, police say.