Sixteen-year-old Lara Glover died on her way to go swimming with friends.

A worker was rescued by firefighters after he become stuck under a bridge when scaffolding collapsed into water.

The Long Bay College community is reeling after three deaths in the school community this year.

A car has crashed into a house in South Auckland tonight, injuring three people.

A helicopter has gone down in a hilly area in the Ruapehu District this morning - the pilot has survived, but was seriously injured in the crash.

Access to the Splore Festival along the Clevedon-Kawakawa Road is blocked after a car crashed and toppled a power pole.

Police want to speak to two men in a taxi who may have witnessed a fatal crash on Auckland's North Western Motorway early this morning.

Police have named the man who died following a crash in Kaukapakapa, on Wednesday 15 February.

Firefighters have cut people out of two vehicles, after a fatal crash at Clevedon, southeast of Auckland.

An independent ship surveyor raised concern about the Francie operating on the Kaipara bar three months before the ill-fated boat sank in the area.

The crash occurred near Glenavy in South Canterbury.

An Auckland man led police on a dangerous night pursuit.

Drivers warned to take care after Wellington crash.

Rachael De Jong drowned near Taupo on Waitangi Day - one of 31 drownings so far. Ahead of her funeral today, her family have written this tribute.

The parents of the boy who was decapitated when riding America's tallest water slide speak out for the first time and share his final words.

Police are investigating whether the bus was speeding at the time, according to local media.

Judy Richards, whose son Rhys Middleton was killed by a tourist driver last year, is leading calls for testing foreign motorists.

A Canadian cruise ship passenger and "self-made man'' was in Dunedin for the day when he was knocked from his bicycle in front of his shocked wife and began a battle for his life.

Two people were injured, one seriously, in a motorcycle crash in Waikato this afternoon.

A Tauranga man has sustained serious injuries after falling from his trail bike at a motocross event near Matata today.

French cruise ship L'Austral has come under investigation for the second time in a month after reportedly hitting a rock in Milford Sound.

A woman was injured after the car she was driving hit a parked car and then "burst into the lounge'' of a Dunedin house today.

A cyclist sustained a serious head injury after being hit by a campervan in Dunedin today. A St John spokesman said an ambulance

An Auckland woman says she was left looking "like a burns victim" after a botched beauty treatment at a Ponsonby salon.

A woman's single dress boot found in a remote valley in the Southern Alps has reignited one of New Zealand's greatest aviation mysteries.

One person has been injured after the car they were in drove off the road and into a swamp in Taranaki. The car, which was travelling

The parents of a young Victorian woman killed in the jetski collision with her boyfriend in Thailand say they do not blame him for her death.

No one is believed injured in two-car crash.

Road will be closed for around three hours while the spill is cleared, say police.

Man flown to Waikato Hospital after rope swing snaps, and he falls 8m.