A person has died after an incident at Henderson train station.

A Canadian safety officer wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

Police make major breakthrough into the crash which killed four people near Hamilton Airport on Friday night.

A woman is in hospital with arm and chest injuries after being kicked in the chest by a cow in Hawkes Bay.

Waikato police say they are investigating whether two cars were racing each other and whether an altercation took place shortly before the fatal crash.

State Highway 29a is blocked in both directions following a serious crash that left five people injured, two seriously.

A man in his 60s who was injured in an electrical accident at a Christchurch fertiliser plant remains in intensive care at Middlemore Hospital.

A motorcyclist is believed to have crossed the centre line and crashed into a car near Matamata yesterday.

The driver of a car, which crashed and led to the closure of a highway just north of Whangarei early this morning, is in a critical condition.

An elderly man killed in a multiple car crash in Dome Valley this week has been named as James Eoin Gillespie.

Two vehicles - believed to be a logging truck and fuel tanker - have collided in the Kaingaroa Forest.

Emergency services have been called to the scene after a car crashed down a bank in Henderson.

A ute may have been driven dangerously on a Northland beach before the horrific crash which claimed the lives of three Brethren church members, police say.

A person is injured after a truck hit a plane on a tarmac at Wellington Airport.

Police have named a man killed in a car crash in Christchurch on Saturday.

Police have named a man killed when his car hit a tree in Kaingaroa Forest on Sunday.

Emergency services are heading to reports of a crash at Pukehina.

First person to lose their life over holiday weekend was passionate about 1937 Ford Cabriolet convertible.

Five people suffered minor injuries in a head-on crash in the eastern Bay of Plenty this morning.

Sparks from the pole caused an electrical fire in the roof of the adjacent property.

A head-on crash on the Kapiti coast has led to a plea for drivers to slow down and drive to the conditions.

Five primary school-aged pupils were injured when the school bus they were on crashed north of Auckland after its handbrake failed.

Auckland traffic is being held up by two separate crashes on motorways this morning.

One person has been killed in a crash near Whakatane this morning.

Four people have been transported to Palmerston North Hospital after two cars crashed near Massey University this morning.

A truck has crashed into the living room of a home in Henderson, in West Auckland.

Two Indian climbers are missing after summitting Everest, a day after an Australian and Dutch climber perished on the mountain.

A teen has suffered suspected head injuries in a rugby game today.

One person is in a serious condition after their car left the road and landed in a paddock near Whangarei.