Police seek second vehicle after an alleged illegal street race ends in serious crash. Both people in the car that crashed were transported to Middlemore.

The alarm was raised just after 7am.

Part of Symonds St, in Auckland city, is cordoned off as nine fire crews battle the blaze.

A 52-year-old man was rescued via helicopter in the Waitakere Ranges. / Northland Rescue Helicopters

The two-car crash has left one person trapped in their vehicle.

Ambulance services at the scene of a car chase accident on the corner of Wheturangi Rd & Campbell road in Greenlane. / Jason Oxenham

Glenn Menzies, Assistant Area Commander comments on the fire on Queen Street, this morning.

Auckland's Queen St is closed in both directions between Mayoral Dr and Karangahape Rd because of a fire. / Supplied by Vinay Kumar & Goran Saveski

Firefighters are working to free them. Police are at the scene at Whangarei Heads Rd.

Search teams will focus on inshore waters off the Makara coast.

A witness has described the moment a car jumped the kerb and hit three people.

A diver was reported missing on Monday evening.

The crash happened around 6.25pm on State Highway 1 in the Rangitikei district.

Latest tool to warn of civil defence emergencies sends mobiles a messages.

MetService has issued severe weather warnings for the east coast of the Bay of Plenty

Senior Station Officer Chris Lind speaks from the scene of an apartment fire at Augustus Terrace in Parnell. / Video by Jason Oxenham

Footage was released of a British cop in the US, along with other officers, saving a woman from a burning car. / Grand Prairie Police

A food caravan's cooker exploded at the Leeston rugby club, burning a man inside.

He suffered serious injuries and has been taken to Middlemore Hospital.

Heart attack survivor Jarrod Church reunites with Ambulance officers Monique Gore & Michelle Maihi. / Jason Oxenham

German woman one of three people killed in fatal crash at Oakleigh.

Emergency services respond after a collision between a school bus and car in Queenstown. / James Allan

New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS) and National Rural Fire Authority commission an independent operational review of the Port Hills fires to learn from their response to the event.

Police say a truck has tipped over and rolled into a house in Ellerslie.

A woman is critical and a man seriously hurt after a car drove off a cliff this morning.

A witness says the fire is in a warehouse that appears to have been completely demolished.

A farmer has been taken to Waikato Hospital after being attacked by a bull.

Two people were trapped in their vehicle after a serious crash in Wellington.

A neighbour said she heard one gunshot before armed police arrived.

Police warn if kayakers had fallen in the water they could have been in "serious trouble".