If you wish to experience something rare, take the road less travelled. To appreciate the lie of the land, you must take the high road.

The story of a police officer's heroic waterfall rescue effort is the most harrowing a coroner has heard in 33 years.

The number of farm injuries has decreased but farmers are still taking too many risks, says Federated Farmers.

A gyrocopter carrying two men, lost power shortly after take-off and plunged into Tauranga Harbour. The men did not have any serious injuries in result of the crash.

An Australian woman has died after being severely injured in a quad bike accident days into her New Zealand holiday.

The sole survivor of a fiery crash which killed four people, including his son and partner, was getting over a recent tragedy but excited after getting engaged.

Waitomo crash survivor Kirsten Steinke is on her way home to Colorado after a month in hospital following the crash that killed her new husband.

An American woman who was critically injured in a car crash near Waitomo Caves has not been told her husband was killed in the accident.

A man has appeared in court this morning charged with causing the death of a Rotorua hunter.

Milk tankers stopped collecting milk in the Far North after a 14-year-old boy was killed when his bicycle collided with a Fonterra tanker.

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.