A spider may have contributed to a quad bike crash that killed Westport teenager Renee McNelis on Monday.

Onlookers were left terrified and thousands lost power when the demolition of a smoke stack went badly wrong in the US state of Ohio.

A five-year-old boy hit by a car outside a South Auckland pre-school has been discharged from hospital.

A new road safety campaign is appealing to young male drivers to 'slow down and stay in mantrol', in an attempt to reduce NZ's road toll.

A 5-year-old boy was in a serious condition last night after he was hit by a car outside a kindergarten centre in South Auckland.

The vision of her mother dying in hospital after being knocked off her bike by a motorist asleep at the wheel is imprinted on Sarah Carr's mind.

A police officer is to undergo surgery after his patrol car was smashed into - possibly deliberately - by a fleeing driver in Hamilton this afternoon.

The families and friends of two teenage best friends killed two weeks apart are shattered by their deaths.

Westport teenager Renee McNelis has been killed in a quad bike accident only a fortnight after her best friend Harmony Wihongi died in a car crash.

Qantas will keep its six A380 superjumbos on the ground for at least the next 72 hours, as testing on their Rolls-Royce engines continues after oil leaks were discovered on three aircraft.

More questions over engines are likely to cause massive delays for Qantas passengers.

Injured motorcyclists were airlifted to hospitals in two separate incidents in the lower North Island today.

Taxpayers may be offered discounts on their accident insurance levies in return for accepting lower compensation, longer waits and higher medical fees after an accident.