Two people have been taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

A rescue helicopter has been dispatched to a car crash at Smiths Overbridge near Blenheim.

As the ex-tropical cyclone bears down, be prepared, forecasters warn.

Police suspect the driver may have suffered a medical event at the time of the crash.

A father and his two children nearly drowned. Now he's asking for action.

The man was critically injured in Hamilton last night - and police aren't sure how.

Fire crews battle huge blaze at scrap metal yard. Source: Glen Easton and Karla Karaitiana

One person had been treated by St John ambulance crews after inhaling paint fumes.

Murdered farmer's family feel numb and saddened by a death which has shocked community.

The woman's husband survived the crash with minor injuries.

Police urge family conversations about road safety

Police are working to help determine the circumstances of how the fire started

Lucky miss as plane crash-lands in stud farm paddock outside Auckland.

Emergency services are at the scenes of two separate crashes just 40km apart

A woman has been critically injured in a crash in the Waikato.

Two people are dead after a crash between a car and a petrol tanker near Marsden Pt.

Emergency services have arrived at a fatal Marsden Point crash. Video / Northern Advocate.

Two people were in the single car that was involved.

Car fire causes delays on Auckland motorway

The Chatham Islands fire that started on Thursday has finally been contained.

Two toddlers were rescued after being left in the car by their grandfather.

Emergency services search pond about 4km from where Amber-Rose Rush, 16, was murdered.

Emergency landing of a DHL freight plane closed down an Auckland Airport runway.

One Twitter user warned people to avoid the Terrace Tunnel "at all costs".

Mitch Woolley was one of two teens to die at Cascade Falls on Saturday.

A boy has been reported missing in the water at Sumner Beach, in Christchurch.

Grass fires in Pukekohe causes train to stop

The New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules flew over the Chathams bushfire to help the Fire Emergency services map the scale of the blaze. This shows some of what they've been dealing with. Source: Twitter / @NZDefenceForce

A Chatham Islands wildfire has destroyed 3000ha and can take another 14 days to control.

Police said three people are trapped in the water at Awhitu, south Auckland.