Kiwi drivers may have been fooled into thinking they would get a speeding ticket during Queen's Birthday weekend, contributing to a dramatic drop in the holiday weekend road toll.

A Tauranga grandmother was comforting her grieving son over the loss of his partner when she received the tragic news her husband had died in a forklift accident.

Engineers will need to carve a road through rugged, heavily forested mountains to retrieve the bodies of the six Australian mining executives killed in a plane crash.

The search for a plane carrying one of Australia's richest men and the entire board of one of the country's mining companies resumed last night.

Two people are on their way to hospital after a car and trailer went over a bank in the central North Island.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority will investigate the death of a 22-year-old man after a brief police chase in Christchurch this morning.

The driver of a car that smashed into a house left behind dead and dying friends to escape with those he was racing against just seconds before.

At least one person fled the scene after a stolen car crashed into a house in Auckland last night, leaving one woman dead and two others injured.