An emergency beacon has mysteriously gone off a year after search teams recovered the bodies of its owners from Aoraki/Mt Cook.

Police are at a serious car crash on Dairy Flat Highway where three people have been hurt.

Two children suffered minor injuries after the school bus they were on collided with a van on State Highway One north of Auckland.

A woman was impaled on a fence post outside an Eden Terrace bar on Wednesday night. She was impaled by the leg near Galbraith's Alehouse

At least 10 people have been hurt, one critically and three seriously, after five serious crashes on Waikato and Bay of Plenty roads today.

A car has gone into the Waipawa River in central Hawke's Bay.

A motorcyclist has collided with a van in the suburb of Otangarei in Whangarei.

A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car outside Palmers Garden Centre in Remuera, Auckland.

The family of the man arrested over the stabbing of French tourist in Australia's Northern Territory are distraught, as the victim's wife is released from hospital.

A woman in her 40s is fighting for her life after she was hit by a truck at Turua near Thames.

Police have today pulled a body from the Takaka River - that of missing man James Rano Dick, known locally as Hemi.

A feline passenger in a car which crashed in the Buller Gorge this morning ended up going to hospital by ambulance with its owner.

A truck and car were involved in a serious accident north of Christchurch this morning.

A fellow boatie said he had laid complaints about skipper Bill McNatty's competence.

Central Hawke's Bay College is on lockdown due to the threat of toxic smoke from a fire at the derelict Waipukurau Hospital's nurses' quarters.

Naked, with two lifejackets pinned under each arm, Iripa Iripa crawled up Muriwai Beach.

A survivor of the Kaipara Harbour disaster was too big for the lifejackets, and desperately clung to the flotation devices while he swam to shore badly injured.

Police have suspended the search for the man still missing from yesterday's Kaipara Harbour tragedy until 5.30am tomorrow, because

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.

One person is in a critical condition follow a two-car crash on State Highway 1, just north of Tirau.

Panicked driver called emergency services, desperately seeking help, as his car hurtled along a motorway for eight minutes before the call ended abruptly.

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.