A truck's cab bursted into flames while travelling along Auckland's Southern Motorway this morning, causing major traffic delays.

A hit-and-run driver who nearly killed a professional New Zealand cyclist in the US has pleaded no contest and faces up to 10 years in jail.

The Mexican engineer whose wife and baby daughter fell 26 floors to their deaths is holding on to hope the tragedy could have been an accident.

A 20-strong surgical team has reattached the fingers of a Waikato meatworker, who was originally keen to have them chopped off completely.

Engineers will today pack explosives into huge boulders that have closed Milford Rd in Fiordland, as residents face their fifth day cut off.

Internal probe tears apart rule-breaking and risk-taking culture of service.

Two men found in a clandestine P lab on the outskirts of Whitianga on Saturday have been named.

Relatives of a 14-year-old cyclist were first on the scene after a fatal collision between the teenager and a milk tanker in Northland.

An Italian ski instructor who strayed into an area of steep slopes and rocky terrain and fell to his death on Mt Ruapehu was not reported missing for two days.

An independent weatherman has hit out at the MetService, claiming it was too slow to issue a severe weather warning for Auckland at the weekend.

Evening of darts turns to tragedy after pensioner struck by car.

An Australian woman remains in a critical condition in hospital today after a quadbike crash, after the second serious quadbike incident this week.

A Whangaparaoa boat building company has been ordered to pay $45,000 after one of its workers was seriously injured in a fall from height.

The father of the 5-year-old boy killed by a bus in August ignored his driving disqualification to go to a cemetery and sit at his son's grave, a court has been told.

The death of a 10-year-old boy in a quad bike accident on a south Wairarapa farm has prompted calls for more safety messages aimed at the vehicles.

A mother was probably distracted for only a moment before a crash with a bus that claimed her three-year-old son's life, a coroner has found.