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.

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 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.

Two people were killed and three seriously hurt after a car driven by a 15-year-old on a learner's licence collided with a truck today.

A West Coast driver who fell asleep and killed a cyclist faces a much longer self-imposed sentence than the community detention handed down, says her lawyer.

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

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.

Emergency checks found 'anomalies' on three of the fleet's new Rolls-Royce engines, chief executive Alan Joyce said today.

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.