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Tourists to be evacuated from Kaikoura
Government forces including transport ship Canterbury will be mobilised to get about 1000 tourists out of earthquake hit Kaikoura.
Government forces including transport ship Canterbury will be mobilised to get about 1000 tourists out of earthquake hit Kaikoura.
The 111 emergency line service wasn't switched over when the Spark office, where the calls are handled, was evacuated.
A search is underway for six kayakers after kayaks and other gear was found abandoned on the flooded Clarence River just before 5pm. A
People forced out of their homes and hotels in Wellington following this morning's severe 7.5 earthquake have all found somewhere to go.
Images are starting to come out of Kaikoura where widespread damage and one death has occurred.
The dog was spotted by a rescue helicopter on Saturday morning after going over the top of the hill on Tuesday.
Some of the victims of the Croydon tram disaster were decapitated, say witnesses.
Emergency services confirm an elderly man who fell into a causeway has died.
Police are investigating whether a tram driver fell asleep at the wheel after at least seven people were killed when his speeding vehicle derailed.
Emergency services responding to reports of a car in the water at Blockhouse Bay today soon learned the car had been there for a number of weeks.
The body of a woman killed while crossing the road was left lying on the road for three hours after her death.
A Fire Service spokesman said the fire in Napier was contained fairly quickly.
An off-duty police officer discovered a motorcyclist killed in a crash in the Lindis Pass, Central Otago yesterday.
A motorcyclist has been killed in an accident on the Lindis Pass Tarras Rd in the South Island. A police spokeswoman said the accident
Using paint and rocks, a woman deserted on an Auckland island for three nights wrote "Help me" on the beach.
Emergency services are at the scene of a serious house fire in South Auckland.
Firefighters have contained a "suspicious" bush fire in Northland which at its peak threatened 30 homes.
A Fire Service spokesman said there are four fire crews at the scene, and they arrived just before 4.30pm.
Passengers have been escorted off a plane at Christchurch International Airport as police investigate a potential bomb scare.
Four houses are being threatened by a large scrub fire in Dunedin this afternoon.
Passengers from a China Southern Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Auckland International Airport this morning, are
Company directors will have to pay out almost $145,000 after a worker was killed when a quad bike flipped and trapped him underneath.
Woman found on Browns Island was stranded for three nights before being rescued.
A truck driver was quick to help rescue a woman trapped in her upside-down car.
One person is dead and another seriously injured after two cars collided in Opotiki last night.
Drugs were allegedly found in the vicinity of a fire in an industrial unit on Burrows St today. A police spokeswoman told the Bay
A motorcyclist who went under a milk tanker that caught fire in a crash near Ashburton this afternoon has died.
A blaze which killed a man at a block of flats in Invercargill does not appear to be suspicious, a Fire Service authority says.