One person has died, and a number of others are injured, after a mini-van rolled south of Spring Creek in the Marlborough District this afternoon.

One person died while another was airlifted to hospital after a two-car crash on State Highway 3, Awakino.

Fire cordons in Port Hills are being lifted, to give people a few hours' access to their homes.

Three people have died in a horror incident on a New South Wales farm which police have described as a "tragic set of devastating occurrences".

Three people have died in a water tank on a New South Wales farm in Australia.

A landslide has taken out power lines and blocked a 50-metre section of road north of Dargaville. Emergency services and council

A large slip has blocked a road in Northland.

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A tree surgeon died in a London backyard after a his chainsaw apparently 'kicked back' into his neck.

At least four people have been killed in an avalanche in the ski resort of Tignes, in the French Alps.

A woman who survived a crash into Lake Wakatipu was initially trapped in her vehicle, police say.

Nobody appears to have been injured in a one-car crash near Twizel this afternoon.

The man who spent two hours trapped in a dam by an excavator has described how he survived in an emotional interview on the Today show.

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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.

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.

Road remains closed after Karapiro crash that killed two.

A person has died after a truck crash near Christchurch.

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.