A young girl hit by a truck in Palmerston North yesterday morning has been transferred to Starship Hospital.

A man was up to his nose in water after his excavator rolled into a dam and trapped him there for two hours.

An ambulance and rescue helicopter are on their way to the isolated scene.

The woman killed in a head-on collision on a rural Auckland road was found by her best friend, who sat with her for hours until her body could be removed.

Power is back on in hundreds of homes around the Auckland region after widespread outages overnight.

Mercury Energy is reviewing its procedures to see if it can improve safety after a woman was swept to her death by the surging waters of the Waikato River.

A dodgy escape route chosen by two bicycle thieves ended up with one of them and a police officer being rescued from a cliff face in Wellington.

The teenager who drowned after he was swept into the flooded Hutt River on Thursday was trying to rescue his friend.

Four people have been injured, one seriously, in a crash south-east of Auckland this afternoon.

The search for a missing young Auckland woman is now focused on an area of forest near Muriwai Beach.

A man has died in one of two serious truck crashes that have closed roads in Timaru and Taranaki this morning.

Emergency services were called to the crash at the intersection of Lenore and Gadsby roads in Favona about 9.20pm.

Emergency services were called to the incident on a North Western Motorway off ramp just after 9.30pm.

A man has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after crashing his vehicle into a parked car in Highgate.

Police would like to speak to two young men who stopped to assist as they were driving past the house and saw flames.

St John has begun rolling out a new generation of ambulances equipped with stretchers that can carry heavier patients.

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A video posted by the Russian Emergency Ministry captures firefighters saving about 150 pigs and piglets from a barn fire in a Siberian village.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

Three people are injured after a pile-up north of Wellington.

District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.

The National Park fire chief has described the scene of this morning's Tongariro National Park bus crash.

A car and a freight train have collided at Matamata in Waikato.

Emergency services were called to the incident on the Otematata-Kurow Rd section of the highway near Lake Aviemore shortly before 4pm.

A fire has broken out in a downtown Auckland tower this afternoon.

Waikato District Health Board is postponing around 500 patients' appointments because of the strike.

A woman is in a critical condition following a near drowning on Auckland's North Shore.

The medical condition was described as being something that "just happens sometimes".

Around 70 firefighters battled a blaze in West Auckland that involved potentially hazardous chemicals.

A man has been helped from his car after a two vehicle crash in Manurewa, Auckland.