Watch Kiwi Karl Loo's video of the shocking 30-story apartment complex fire, two blocks from his home, which left 42 dead.

The Palmerston North rescue helicopter has airlifted two trampers out of the bush.

An injured cyclist was given an angry lecture by the driver who forced him off the road.

The pilot of a Qantas 747 was forced to turn back during a Sydney-Argentina flight when smoke started coming from an instrument panel in the cockpit.

Police have named the pregnant woman killed in a head-on crash near Palmerston North.

Police have named a female cyclist who was one of 12 people killed in crashes on New Zealand's roads this weekend.

A horror weekend on the country's roads has seen nine people die, including two cyclists and a heavily pregnant woman.

Three teenage boys have been praised as heroes for their actions after a serious collision.

An elderly man is being taken to hospital in a critical condition after being found on a street in Onehunga.

When is a pursuit not a pursuit? When it involves a 'fleeing' driver, according to the police.

A young man is dead after his car crossed the centre line and was partially crushed under a school bus carrying 21 teenagers.

The inexperience of a teen driver with a new learner's licence was a "massive factor" in a fatal smash, say police.

One person was killed and two critically injured when a car collided with a school bus near Kumeu, west of Auckland, this afternoon.

A plane that crashed near Fox Glacier, killing nine, is believed to have been over its maximum allowable weight and off-balance.