The name of the Filipino fisherman who was washed out to sea yesterday has been released.

A pyrotechnics expert says industry will keep close tabs on investigation into how a Dunedin man suffered a severe eye injury during NY fireworks display.

A single-car crash is blocking an off-ramp on Auckland's Southern Motorway this evening. Police, ambulance and fire crews are at

A person is in a critical condition in Middlemore Hospital after a car crash south of Auckland this afternoon. Emergency crews were

Both the holiday road toll and last year's entire toll are the worst they've been in years.

The death of a young Czech man who fell several hundred metres on Mt Aspiring is "tragic", the Mountain Safety Council says.

Disappointed police boss says all the fatal crashes over the holidays were avoidable.

The wrong chemicals were accidentally added to a school pool.

Crash survivors still weak but 'doing okay' after their flight from Gisborne.

The community is rallying to help the family of the little girl who was run over in Te Kauwhata on Boxing Day.

One person has died and another two been badly injured in separate crashes as holiday traffic queues across the North Island.

Fund will help the people injured in Gisborne bus crash.

Family and friends of the three teens killed in a horror smash have been visiting the crash site in Canterbury all day today.

A car filled with adults and children has flipped on SH4 north of Whanganui.

The annual road toll has exceeded last year's grim total with four days before the period ends

Significant delays remain on State Highway 1 north of Wellsford after this morning's truck crash.

WARNING: GRAPHIC A post-Christmas camping trip ended with an 18-year-old woman trapped under the bonnet of a rolled car.

Tonga's deputy prime minister is focused on getting the schoolchildren involved in a Christmas Eve bus tragedy in New Zealand home.

The 11-year-old boy who died in the Christmas Eve bus crash was "quiet, kind and smiley" his sister says.

Firefighters freed two people from a vehicle this afternoon after it rolled down a bank on State Highway 29 in the Lower Kaimais.

Her smile always made him happy, says the widower of Gisborne bus crash victim.

Tongan community mourns two visitors' deaths in bus crash after brakes failed to work, survivors say.

A Herald investigation reveals the most dangerous roads during the Christmas holiday period.

The two people killed in the Christmas Eve bus crash near Gisborne last night have been named, as the driver of the bus says the brakes failed.

The shocking moment a three-year-old boy was hit by a truck in China has been captured on camera.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a car in Takapuna, on Auckland's North Shore. She is believed to be the first person killed in holiday period.

One person has moderate to serious injuries after a car crash in rural South Canterbury this afternoon.

A crash that closed the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington has been cleared and the tunnel has re-opened, NZTA Wellington said.

Traffic is heavy and slow on Auckland's Southern Motorway as holidaymakers and commuters begin the crawl south to escape the city for Christmas.

A man is dead and a woman in hospital after a car rolled into a paddock north of Christchurch this morning.