The second of four teenage girls injured in a crash during a high-speed police pursuit in Auckland has been discharged from hospital.

About 200 families from around the world have written to PM John Key demanding better control, monitoring and regulation of the tourism industry.

Frustrated commuters are calling for a change in retail working hours after a motorway crash caused gridlock across Auckland.

Two companies have been fined almost $30,000 after an 18-year-old industrial window cleaner fell 15 metres, suffering serious injuries.

Auckland Transport has been accused of failing to acknowledge long-held safety concerns of local politicians whose turf covers a railway crossing where a disabled woman was hit by a train.

Inner-city Auckland traffic was brought to a virtual standstill after a motorway crash - gridlock that the Automobile Association described as the worst it had seen.

The teen girl behind the wheel of a car that crashed during a police pursuit has been discharged from hospital while one of her passengers fights for her life.

In their final moments, two teenage sisters sat together in the back of a speeding car on their way to a family cemetery - one pleading with the driver to slow down.

The family of a young wheelchair-bound woman who was struck by a train in Auckland last week have praised those who put themselves in danger to save her life.

Two of four teenage girls involved in a crash during a police pursuit late on Sunday remain in a critical condition in Auckland City Hospital.

The lead pilot of the air force's fatal Anzac Day formation is being made a scapegoat for failures right up the command chain, says the father of one of the men who died in the 2010 crash.

The wife of a man who fell 14m to his death on an adventure course has spoken about her frantic rush to get to him - and the devastating moment she was told he was dead.

Adam Strange's closest friends and family said goodbye with a bang at sunset last night, echoing a cheeky joke of long ago.

Police say they are "comfortable" with the actions of officers involved in a one-minute pursuit that resulted in four teenage girls fighting for their lives in hospital.

An RNZAF officer has been charged over the fatal Iroquois crash at Pukerua Bay on Anzac Day 2010.

A wife watched in horror her husband fell 14 metres to his death from a high-ropes adventure course near Auckland yesterday.

The flight training industry stands on the threshhold, says Lyn Neeson: either tighten regulations now or lose more of the country's finest young pilots.

Captain Ravendra Pal Singh, convicted of assaulting two student pilots in a cockpit 1500ft above the ground, compares himself to Jesus Christ.

Rail workers were yesterday fixing crossings after a wheelchair-bound woman was nearly killed after a wheel on her chair became jammed.

Two naked fishermen had to make a desperate swim to Matakana Island after their kayak sank in Tauranga Harbour.

More than 120 young people were caught driving illegally during a week-long police campaign targeting high schools.

A man is dead and three people - including two children - are in hospital in a stable condition following a bus crash in Manurewa yesterday.

One person has been killed and three people injured in a bus crash in Auckland this afternoon.

The wife of a Wellington man charged with careless driving, resulting in the death of their unborn baby, is devastated about the charges and does not want court action to continue, a court was told today.

A mother has told of the moment she saw her 8-year-old son lying under his motorbike with a large branch sticking out of his thigh.

A coroner says it will be a "massive task" to piece together what happened in a fatal mid-air crash which killed two teenagers and a helicopter pilot in 2008.