The wreck of the helicopter that crashed, killing two people on Thursday, has been recovered from Bluff Harbour.

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.

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.

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.

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.