A video game may have helped a pilot put his damaged aircraft down safely after a mid-air collision that killed two others.

Cold, icy conditions may have been a factor in a crash between a car and a truck between Waiouru and Rangipo this morning, which killed two men.

Bridge swing operator Alistair McWhannell was today sentenced to 400 hours community service for the manslaughter of a student who fell to her death last year.

A driver has admitted causing the death of a boy, 4, who was walking on the pavement with his family when he was hit by the teenager's car.

Thousands have farewelled a teenage girl killed while driving with friends to pick up their school ball gowns.

Orewa College's board of trustees has been ordered to pay almost $137,000 over a fatal boiler room explosion.

A police officer suffered whiplash injuries after his car was rammed from behind when he slowed down for a school bus this morning.

The student pilot killed in yesterday's flight school crash was in her 60s and from the Kapiti Coast area, police said this morning.

Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner was well known for her kind and giving nature and finally donated her organs.

A boy's death-defying plunge from the top storey of an apartment block was the latest in a string of serious incidents involving King's students.