A tractor has flipped in a crash with a truck on the outskirts of Gisborne this morning.

A Dutch rock climber was injured after falling 14m at a popular climbing spot in the South Island this afternoon.

A car parked in the driveway was all that saved Sylvia Lawrence when a car smashed through a fence and into the bedroom wall, her daughter says.

The recovery yesterday of the last of the men lost when a fishing boat capsized on the Kaipara Bar gave some relief to mourners at a memorial service.

A car crash and a bus breakdown has led to traffic crawling through Auckland's central motorway at lunchtime.

A person is in a serious condition after a car crashed into a pole in Cambridge this morning.

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.

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 major crash has blocked a major route across the Wellington region this morning.

An empty school bus and truck have collided north of Wellsford this morning.

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.

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.

An American tourist who died on a bike ride in Tauranga has been named.

Multiple patients have been taken to Dunedin Hospital with moderate to severe injuries

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.