A person has died after a car smashed into a home in Tauranga.

An 8-year-old boy was accidentally stabbed in a fall near Ohakuhe this afternoon. The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter was called

A woman has died at Taipa Beach in the Far North tonight.

In the United States, what happened to Kimi's family has occurred at least 25 times since January 2015.

The family of Brazilian soccer player Neto, one of only six survivors of a plane crash in Colombia, say he had had a dream his airline crashed.

Police have laid charges against the driver whose car plunged off the fifth floor of a central Auckland carpark.

Commuters are facing an arduous Friday night drive home after a crash on Auckland's Harbour Bridge this afternoon.

Emergency services are on the way to a car crash in Waione, where at least one person may still be trapped in the vehicle.

The search for the fisherman still missing after the Francie disaster has been called off.

A Kiwi nun who dedicated her life to missionary work and teaching has died in a car accident in France.

An Australian comedian has been forced to apologise after he tweeted an off-colour joke about a plane crash that killed 71 people

Astonishing footage has emerged of a van driver grappling with a trucker, reversing his van into him and then smashing his victim's window with a shovel.

Wellington commuters face a long trip into town after two crashes.

A driver has been airlifted to hospital after a serious truck crash on the East Coast this morning.

Police have released the last name of a Chinese National killed in a three car crash on State Highway 1 near Moeraki last week.

Fisherman tells of desperate attempts to stay in contact with those on board the charter boat Francie, which sank in heaving seas, claiming eight lives.

The manager of the Auckland daycare centre where a 4-year-old died recently says teachers were supervising the playground when the "tragic accident" happened.

A distraught mother saw her daughter crushed to death under a falling war memorial.

A car has hit a wall outside a school on State Highway 11 north of Kawakawa. A police spokeswoman said they were called to the scene

A school boy picked to become a prefect at one of Auckland's top grammar schools has died in a car accident.

The head of an Auckland daycare where a child died is speaking out for the first time.

A 40-year-old pregnant woman critically injured in a car crash on Friday is now in a serious condition in hospital.

A motorcyclist has died in a crash with a car on State Highway 25, south of Tairua, this afternoon.

Emergency services are at the scene of a major crash in rural Hawke's Bay tonight.

Source: Facebook. Coastguard Kaipara. Footage of Winstone Rescue shadowing local charter boat Francie down the Kaipara Harbour.

Two people have minor injuries after a bus and truck crashed in Auckland.

One in five Kiwis send texts while driving, according to a new survey tracking risky driving behaviours.

A motorist has been flown to hospital after a vehicle rolled at Muriwai this morning.

Panicked driver called emergency services, desperately seeking help, as his car hurtled along a motorway for eight minutes before the call ended abruptly.

A worker has been seriously hurt in an accident at a Queenstown tortilla company.