The parents of a boy killed in a trailbike accident will receive $35,000 for offensive comments Michael Laws made on air.

A light plane has gone down in Sydney's southwest, killing two people aboard and narrowly missing children on their way to school.

Police have named the Australian tourist who died while on a guided walk of the West Coast's Franz Josef Glacier yesterday.

Another New Zealand motorcyclist has been killed in the Isle of Man TT event.

A witness to a bridge-swinging event where an 18-year-old student fell to her death broke down in tears while giving evidence in court today.

A mystery woman leapt into the sea to save a boy, 4, who was floating face down and being carried into deeper water on the outgoing tide.

Barely a day after the end of a Queen's Birthday weekend with the lowest road toll in 54 years, two people - one a 3-year-old boy - died in separate crashes.

A child has been killed in a bus crash near the Northland town of Kaeo and another person has died after a crash in Canterbury late today.