The Government is to allow private insurers to compete with the Accident Compensation Corporation.

Police have charged the 18-year-old driver of a van involved in a fatal crash near Rotorua in July.

A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.

She's lucky to be alive, but 12-year-old Jacqueline Wyatt will have to learn to walk again.

NZ has just one inspector to oversee safety in its oil exploration industry.

Three people have died on the roads so far this weekend in crashes near Wellsford, in the Far North and in west Auckland.

Gas readings have been promising at the Pike River Coal mine since an Australian generator began pumping nitrogen into the mine yesterday to help cool the environment inside.

Family members of the cyclists killed by a driver in Morrinsville just over a month ago share their stories of that fateful day.

A 55-year-old woman had just beaten the cancer she had battled for 10 years when a teen, nearly five times over the youth drink driving limit, crossed the centre line and smashed into her car. He was jailed today.

Multiple breaches of police policy have been found in a pursuit where an officer was hit and seriously wounded by a drug-affected fleeing offender. The IPCA found a pursuing officer ignored two orders to abandon the chase.

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Auckland's Mission Bay heard a survivor scream, 'Bro, I told you not to speed'.

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.