A female scooter rider has died in a crash at Rotorua this morning and a second serious crash was being attended by emergency services in Putaruru.

Two men have been injured in motocross incidents near Nelson.

A top police officer is calling for unlicensed drivers to be banned from buying vehicles after a horror motorcycle death last week.

Five years after the Mangatepopo canyoning disaster, some families have been inspired to give while others remain angry at the lack of accountability.

The infant siblings badly burned in a Gisborne car fire are likely to face dozens more operations and many weeks in hospital as they recover.

A teenager and a 20-year-old died in an after-party crash caused by the unlicensed driver reaching 145km/h while racing his overloaded vehicle, a coroner has found.

A man's been taken to Wellington Hospital's emergency department after seriously injuring his leg while felling a tree.

A student pilot was lucky to walk away from an emergency landing on an East Cape beach.

Rugby player Chris Eaton paid an emotional tribute to his wife Hannah at her funeral in Napier, saying words could not describe the love he had for her.

Alicia Kissick was like most young Kiwis heading off on their OE - full of dreams, aspirations and excitement. Then she fractured two vertebrae in her spine.

The family of two children who were severely burned in a car fire in Gisborne last week are maintaining a bedside vigil as the pair continue to fight for their lives in hospital.

UPDATED Police are still searching for a car involved in a hit and run that has left a teenage boy in an Auckland hospital overnight.

A dad was killed while riding in the sidecar of a speedway motorbike driven by his son during a practice run yesterday.

The plane that crashed off the coast of Kawhia last Saturday had undergone extensive repairs for damage when it ran off the end of an airstrip a year ago.

A teenage boy has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a hit and run in Auckland this evening.