The cyclist killed on Auckland's Tamaki Dr was a nurse on a working holiday remembered by her workmates as 'popular and fun-loving'.

An inner city Auckland building destined to be a brothel is going to be pulled down after large cracks were found in the walls this afternoon.

A female cyclist who died this morning after being hit by a car in the Waikato was a "friend to hundreds", her stunned family said today.

An inquiry has laid blame on both anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil and a Japanese whaling ship for their Southern Ocean crash earlier this year.

A female cyclist was hit and killed by a truck last night on Auckland's most popular and dangerous waterfront route.

The cyclist killed on Tamaki Drive this evening fell under a truck when trying to avoid a parked car's opening door, say police.

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.

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.