High visibility jackets should be mandatory for officers laying road spikes, a coroner says.

The country's top military leader has publicly apologised to the family of an airman killed when an old artillery round unexpectedly exploded.

One witness has told a murder trial the accused was kissing his girlfriend before he crashed into a car, and another that they were arguing.

Two occupants of a plane which crashed near Ohakune this morning have survived unscathed.

A man has admitted killing his two friends when he sped away from police and crashed into two power poles.

Police say they are "devastated" by the Labour Weekend road toll, which closed at eight - the same number as last year.

A widow wants pilots to stay away from a helicopter involved in 30 crashes in six years in which nine people have died, including two this month.

All the crashes which caused seven fatalities this Labour weekend were avoidable, say police.

Fellow hunters have expressed "disgust" at the actions of a man who shot dead a woman after he mistook her for a animal.