One person has died in a collision between a motorcycle and a van in central Hamilton this afternoon.

A woman is believed to have died after an "extreme fall" from a central Auckland apartment building last night

A person is being airlifted to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition after a house fire in Orewa tonight.

Police are working to track down the suppliers of illicit drugs after seven people were hospitalised in Auckland.

Two people rushed to hospital from an Auckland brothel this morning are believed to have ingested the drug GHB, police say.

Emergency services are at the scene of a two-car crash between Patetonga and Torehape on the western side of the Hauraki Plains.

In the afternoon's most serious crash, just before 4pm, at least seven people were injured and State Highway 2 was closed near Bombay, south of Auckland. St John was alerted to the accident at 2.36pm and sent a rescue helicopter and four ambulances to the scene. The incident happened on State Highway 2 near Avon Rd, just east of the intersection with State Highway 1.

Five children believed to be among 20+ injured on NZ's roads today after a horror start to the year. One person was killed early this morning.

At least 100 firefighters are dealing with fires and car crashes throughout the area tonight.

Firefighters undertook a "delicate operation" at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital this morning.

Two teenage girls had to be rescued from the Manukau Harbour after drifting 1.5km off-shore on an inflatable swan.

An investigation has been launched after reports of a mysterious explosion that has hospitalised a Stoke man.

Three drown, one person missing, and another in serious condition.

One person has been critically injured in a road accident in Ranui.

A firefighter rescued two people from a Bleheim house fire early this morning.

A 12-year-old boy remains in critical condition after falling through a skylight while walking on the roof of a school.

An 11-year-old boy has died following a fall in a lift in a house that was being renovated north of Auckland.

Fire fighters were called to a single storey two-unit block of flats on Arthur Grove in Waikanae about 7.30pm.

Smoke billowing over city as bush fire rages on city's North Shore.

The man who received life threatening injuries after being struck by a van in South Auckland remains in a critical condition this morning.

Driver who allegedly shunted into an Auckland mother's car remembers very little.

Although the driver appeared uninjured, some of the vehicle's contents had landed in the stream.

A pedestrian has life threatening injuries after he was struck by a van in South Auckland early today.

Crew members from the Westpac rescue helicopter are used to saving lives - but now it may be with their own blood.

Paying for lost tourist's phone data enabled teams to find him in deep fog, police say.

Mother of three suffered extensive injuries in a crash in northwest Auckland on Friday night.

A three-way car crash is causing commuter chaos in Wellington tonight as drivers face a long trip home.

Cardiac arrest patients cared for by New Zealand's largest ambulance provider have a markedly lower chance of surviving than those under the service covering Wellington and the Wairarapa.

Tributes have poured in for a worker who was killed in a bitumen explosion in rural Waikato yesterday.

A man is dead after a fuel tanker explosion at an earth-moving company this afternoon.