An 88-year-old man has died after a car crashed into his bedroom in Northcross this afternoon.

The driver of a car which hit a pedestrian in the Waikato on Tuesday night was not to blame for the man's death, police say.

A mother who lost a son in the Air NZ Airbus crash off France is saddened to see blame being meted out to the people involved.

Experts for French prosecutors probing the crash of an Air NZ jet in 2008 agree with air safety investigations which blame human error.

Police say they have yet to discover the name and age of a man whose dead body was found by a street cleaner in Hamilton on Sunday morning.

All seven people aboard an Airbus A320 test flight died when it crashed in 2008. Air NZ said it could not confirm a report that an announcement would be made tonight regarding the crash.

A Waitara teenager died in New Plymouth Hospital early this morning after being struck by a van.

A new study has found more than a third of our busiest roads are unsafe, with Auckland and Northland having the most high-risk highways.

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.