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 woman was killed on a Waikato farm yesterday when the vehicle she was driving rolled down a bank.

An advocate for disabled people says the Auckland train crossing where a wheelchair-bound woman nearly died was in "an appalling state" and has detailed another near-miss.

A wheelchair-bound woman who was hit by a freight train in Auckland remains in a critical condition following a desperate rescue attempt.

It looked look a simple task of helping a woman whose wheelchair was stuck on train tracks. But Matthieu Mereau was soon locked in a desperate struggle for her life and his own.

A man was watching the end of an international cricket match in his lounge when a police pursuit came to a dramatic end outside his doorstep.

A worker run over and killed by a forklift in an early morning industrial accident in Christchurch today has been named.

A man is in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital after he was hit by a car near Dipton last night.

What's the first thing that goes through a cyclist's head when he is hit from behind by a car travelling at nearly 100km/h?

A seven-year-old boy and his father suffered leg injuries when their boat exploded in a Picton harbour today.

A man has survived a 15m fall from the top of a waterfall into a shallow pool near Te Anau where he needed to be rescued by a helicopter.

A Korean man has died tramping on the Milford Track.

A man who jumped from a cliff towards a water hole and missed has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.

A truck has rolled south of Te Kuiti on SH3 this morning.

A man who crashed his ute on the outskirts of Hamilton this morning could have been trapped for hours if a witness hadn't seen the vehicle career across a paddock and into a creek.

A Go Bus driver who was carrying 19 Bethlehem College students when he collided with a ute on State Highway 2 has been convicted of careless driving and discharged.