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.

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.

The Government's transport safety regulator has finally decided to investigate the train accident that almost killed a young woman in a wheelchair on an Auckland level crossing.

The sister of a woman killed in a cycling accident has made an emotional plea at her funeral for motorists to share the road with cyclists.

Police have confirmed that the driver killed in a crash at Helensville with her young nephews yesterday did not have a licence.

Two children - a baby and an 11-year-old boy - and their young aunt were killed in a crash that also left their 6-year-old sister and a man fighting for their lives.

Several thousand litres of glue have spilled onto the road after two trucks collided on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei this morning.

A pilot who ditched his helicopter in a Northland bay has been slammed by crash investigators for a series of failings.

A survivor of a crash in the Lindis Pass that claimed two lives, caused by an inexperienced driver, wants to see rental car companies imposing tougher controls on who it hires vehicles to.

There have been problems for Auckland commuters on the southern motorway this morning.

A group of children say they are grateful to their elderly school bus driver who managed to pull over safely after he was hit by a metal pole that flew through the windscreen.

The military inquiry into the firefight in Afghanistan that left two soldiers dead is unlikely to be made public, the New Zealand Defence Force says.