A mother is calling for a city council to take action after a falling football goal crossbar broke all but one bone in her son's face.

A hunting trip turned to tragedy when a group tried to raft out of a remote part of Eastern Bay of Plenty on a swollen river.

Injured father reveals his son suffered an electric shock while fighting to save him from electrocution.

Police have praised the actions of a group of "heroes" who risked their lives to pull three people from the wreckage of a crash in Hawke's Bay.

The flight instructor who died in a helicopter crash "ate, drank and slept" aviation, a friend says.

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.

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

A 10-year-old boy says he would have died without the brave actions of an off-duty police officer who pulled him from a burning wreck.

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