Railway lines near an Auckland train station have been closed after the discovery of a person's body early today, police said.

A one-year-old toddler was hit by a vehicle reversing out of its driveway in the small Northland rural town of Kaikohe today.

The sentencing of two companies and a company director over a fatal coolstore explosion in the Waikato has given firefighters closure.

Big fines and reparation bills have been given to two companies and a company director charged over last year's fatal Waikato coolstore fire.

The Govt has rejected the idea of banning children from riding quad bikes despite the death of a six-year-old girl at the weekend.

The body of a man who died after driving his 4WD off a 100m bank in the Bay of Plenty has been recovered, police say.

An 11-year-old boy was trapped in a crashed car with his dead grandfather for 20 minutes yesterday.

A 6-year-old girl was crushed to death before her father's eyes yesterday after her quadbike rolled.

An investigation is underway after a unmanned fire truck took off from a station and ended up down a bank metres short of a house.