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'.

A woman who lost control of her car and killed three cyclists says she hates herself for what happened.

The 13-year-old killed when he drove into a fence had been hidden by his family after running away from a caregiver.

A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.