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

The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

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.

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.

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.