The search for the last victim of the Kaipara charter boat tragedy is under way this morning.

Tongan cousins Alipate "Pate" Manumu'a and Sunia "Junior" Ungo'unga died in the charter boat tragedy.

A sixth person has died almost a week after Melbourne was hit by an unprecedented thunderstorm asthma outbreak.

A seven-year-old boy whose head got stuck in an electric gate near Auckland's Botanic Gardens yesterday is in a stable condition in intensive care.

Two more bodies have been recovered this morning following a fishing charter boat sinking on the Kaipara Harbour, taking the toll to seven with one person still missing.

Emergency services are at the scene of a major crash in rural Hawke's Bay tonight.

Onlookers desperately tried to free a 7-year-old boy whose head became stuck in an electric gate near Auckland Botanic Gardens this afternoon.

A pregnant woman is in hospital after suffering critical injuries when the car she was driving and another vehicle collided in the Dome Valley.

Two Canterbury fires are being treated as suspicious after being discovered one street apart in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Canterbury Civil Defence hopes to reopen one lane of the Inland Rd into Kaikoura tomorrow afternoon.

A man has died in a single car crash in Ahipara south east of Kaitaia.

A woman who was in one of the cars crushed when a 30m tree fell at Cornwall Park has been reunited with the man who came to her rescue.

More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

Three workmen were hospitalised after a gas pipe was cut at Massey University in Palmerston North today.

Police have pulled a body from the Waikato river after a group of people lost sight of their friend in the waterway earlier.

A Fire Service spokeswoman said eight trucks were at the scene, and they were notified of it at 8.30pm.

A number of other patients remain in intensive care and one person is critical, the health minister said today.

Emergency services are in attendance at an airfield in Manawatu.

A van had flipped on its roof, a police spokeswoman said.

An accident along Whanganui's Mosston Rd which knocked out power to nearly 200 homes has prompted calls for a speed camera in the

Emergency services are at the scene of a one car crash at the intersection of Waikite Valley Rd and SH5, south of Rotorua.

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has been accused of vilifying a Geonet scientist who spoke out about the need for a better tsunami warning system in New Zealand.

Emergency services say a crash on Redoubt Rd in South Auckland could cause delays for commuters.

An elderly woman and her son-in-law were close to death when a tree fell in Cornwall Park, an off-duty cop says.

TRAGEDY: Sixty-eight-year-old Bruce Smith died during the Sand to Surf event on Saturday. PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER 191116aw21bop By staff

Emergency services are attending the scene of a car crash involving 11 people in Christchurch, where there are concerns a fight could break out.

The family of an 11-year-old who was critically injured in a horror crash in Ngaruawahia had to turn off his life-support.

A 9-year-old boy in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is one of seven young people hurt in a car crash in Ngaruawahia last night.

A man suffered serious head injuries after crashing into a power pole in Waiuku, and three others were injured in a Glenn Innes crash.

A van fleeing police has crashed into a bus, which was carrying passengers, on Khyber Pass Rd in Auckland.