A woman has died and another is seriously injured after a two-car crash on a bridge near Eketahuna this morning.

Woman had to be winched off ship in the Cook Strait by rescue helicopter.

The road is expected to be closed until at least 6.30pm.

A New Zealand man has died while working on the massive stadium build in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.

Young drivers are baiting police into initiating high speed pursuits - all to secure dramatic footage, the national police roading manager says.

The son of a Hamilton woman, who was texting and driving before she was killed in a crash, is pleading with drivers to put their mobile phones away.

Police have named the man killed in Wednesday's crash.

No one was seriously hurt in the crash.

Members of a shearing gang were injured this morning when the van they were in left the road and smashed into a tree.

A driver injured in a Christchurch crash was not wearing a seatbelt, police say.

Relatives of a cyclist killed in a crash this morning arrived at the scene.

Woman spends week in hospital after horrifying crash on NZ road captured on dashcam.

A man is dead after an accident on a farm.

Police broaden the hunt for a car that killed teenage skateboarder Jacob Pakura.

Three people are injured after a pile-up north of Wellington.

Two people have been freed from the wreckage of a truck and car collision near Blenheim.

A safety report has revealed what Kiwis fear the most.

One boy suffered head injuries and second a broken leg in the incidents.

The driver of a vehicle which police say crossed the centreline and smashed into a ute near Tirau has died.

There has been a serious crash in Titirangi this morning.

Staff have been evacuated from a Countdown supermarket at Warkworth north of Auckland, because of a chemical leak.

A woman's sea lion bite is infected and a rescue helicopter is flying 400km to a remote island to evacuate her.

Fatal crash blocks stretch of Southland highway this morning.

A man suffered burns to five per cent of his face after collapsing onto his lawnmower.

Patient battles through two reviews and three court cases to prove that his treatment injury happened at the time of surgery.

Mike Middleton hasn't touched his motorbike since February 7, 2016 - the day his son, Rhys, was killed.

The 2017 road toll already stands at nine.

Auckland commuters can groan in agreement with a report that reveals the city has the worst travel times and reliability in Australia and New Zealand.

There's never a dull day for rescue helicopters.

The 38-year-old man suffered a neck injury when he plunged into a Te Puke pool yesterday,