The bodies of 2degrees chief executive Eric Hertz and his wife, Kathy, who died when their plane ditched off Kawhia on Saturday, may never be recovered.

A hunter shot and killed by his best mate last year had previously told his partner he knew how easy it was to mistake a person for a deer.

Rescuers are struggling to reach the bodies of 2degrees' boss Eric Hertz and his wife Kathy believed to be inside the plane wreckage on the sea floor.

A nine-year-old boy was flown to hospital with minor neck injuries after a quad bike incident in a remote part of the South Island's West Coast.

A grieving mother has urged New Zealand authorities to make roll-bars on quadbikes compulsory.

A 50-year-old Warkworth man suffered burns to much of his body after a backyard fire exploded.

A search is underway for two people aboard a twin-engined aircraft that ditched in the sea off Kawhia at around 12.20pm today after reporting engine failure.

Rabbits weren't the only victims during this year's annual 'Great Bunny Hunt', with one of their hunters accidentally shooting himself today.

The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

The former Bethlehem College student who was driving the minibus in Kenya which crashed, killing four people, was encouraged to drive.

An Auckland man who gave CPR to a toddler found face down in a hot pool has played down his actions.

Hunting for Easter eggs is coming with a $12.2 million warning this Easter, after nearly 20,000 people injured themselves at the expense of taxpayers last year.

A Northland farmer who campaigned for tractor safety says now is the time to adopt similar procedures to prevent further quad bike deaths.

A pupil at Wakatipu High School suffered a fractured skull when a soccer goal tipped and fell on him.

A man's throat was cut in an accident at a glazing company in Napier yesterday.

Trucks and bikes aren't a very good combination.

A 19-year-old man who rolled his ute called his own ambulance after laying trapped for two hours with spinal injuries.

Two "lucky" women continue to recover in hospital today after surviving a head-on crash involving a convertible Audi on Auckland's Tamaki Drive last night.

A New Zealander rescued from a stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been left penniless after thieves stripped her vessel when it washed up in Australia.

A woman has fed herself and held her children for the first time since a surfing accident left her paralysed.

A teenager killed in a car crash in Papakura has been remembered by grief-stricken friends and his rugby team.

Police are urging young people to take lessons from the tragedy that killed Cheyenne Hemana, 17, and her two nephews.