The bodies of an instructor and a trainee pilot were this afternoon removed from the wreckage of the helicopter which crashed into Bluff Harbour yesterday.

The helicopter missing since yesterday has been found submerged in Bluff Harbour along with the bodies of the chopper's two crew.

Two people were taken to hospital after a bus crashed into a line of cars in the Auckland suburb of Greenlane this morning.

A major search underway in Southland for a missing helicopter with a pilot and instructor on board will continue into the night.

The recent conviction of two Auckland cabbies for working excessive hours should be a lesson to others, the New Zealand Transport Authority says.

The deaths of four people in house fires across the country in the past five days could have been prevented, the Fire Service says.

A driver was trapped today after heavy winds blew a large tree branch on to his truck.

A man is dead following a house fire in the south Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe today, and a firefighter was treated in hospital for burns to his hands.

There have been more troubling developments in the toxic sludge spill in Europe.

Two young brothers are being hailed as heroes after they rescued their dad from a DIY disaster.

The grandmother of a man killed after a police pursuit says the police are putting lives at risk by continuing with chases.

A gathering ended with near-tragedy when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd on a remote rural road outside re-elected Manawatu district mayor Ian McKelvie's property.