An 8-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after he was dragged under the wheels of a bus for 15m.

An eight-year-old boy is in hospital after he was dragged under a bus in front of horrified onlookers in west Auckland this afternoon.

The army is investigating how a box of ammunition fell off the back of one of its trucks and was run over by a car.

An Australian cop fatally shot in the head during a drugs raid in Sydney last week was killed by a bullet fired by a fellow officer, police confirm.

A 22-year-old New Zealand man has been arrested over the death of an 11-year-old girl in a boating accident in England.

Two men were injured when they were thrown into the sea after their motor launch collided with the Waiheke Island ferry last night.

All five people in the car had been drinking and the driver said she lost control after being distracted by a passenger.

Days after her partner died in last Saturday's tragedy, Dido Eden found a poem from him asking her to marry him.

Annika Kirsten, 23, was one of nine people to die in the skydiving plane crash at Fox Glacier on September 4.

Police are searching for a man who smashed a car into an overbridge near Levin and took off on foot early today.

The driver of a car involved in a triple fatality on Tuesday night had been stopped earlier in the day for speeding and carrying unauthorised passengers, police say.