A Lower Hutt man has been arrested in connection with an assault which occurred last week in Stokes Valley. Hutt Valley Police arrested

The girl injured herself while tramping with her family at Upper Travers Hut late on Sunday afternoon.

Firefighters are battling a large house fire north of Auckland this evening.

An 11-year-old boy has been rushed to Dunedin hospital after falling almost four metres from a rope swing.

A male has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after an incident on Wellington Urban Motorway's Terrace off-ramp. Police

State Highway 1 in Foxton is closed as police investigate a possible gas leak.

It was such a relief when I saw the paramedic running down the track.Alice Bradley, Paraparaumu. When Alice Bradley lay bleeding

Fire and ambulance staff were called to a laundromat in Gonville afternoon after a child became shut inside a dryer.

100+ firefighters dealing with fallen powerlines, explosive debris, wather runoff, dense smoke and unknown chemicals at a suspicious West Auckland factory blaze.

Police are asking motorists to avoid the intersection of Kerwyn Ave and Ra Ora Dr in East Tamaki following a crash between a car and a van.

Two young men nearly drowned after the boat they were heading out to sea in capsized and they became tangled in their nets.

A man died after the car he was in was washed 100m down a flooded creek during heavy downpours in Northland.

An emergency response at Auckland International Airport was caused this afternoon when an official accidentally set off a can of pepper spray.

A woman was lost in Wellington bush this evening after taking a nap during an afternoon walk.

A person has died after a serious crash near Warkworth, which closed State Highway 1 in both directions.

Police are still searching for Bodi McKee, 23, in connection with a fatal shooting in south Auckland yesterday.

One cow is dead after a car collided with loose cattle on a Northland road earlier tonight. A fire spokeswoman said the car involved

Emergency services are at the scene in Tokoroa where a car has hit a wall. A Fire Service shift manager said one car went into a

Emergency services are standing down after failing to find signs of fire in a building on the Terrace in Wellington's CBD this evening.

A man is in Southland Hospital with a gunshot wound following an incident on Sunday.

A woman who was one of the first to scene of a fatal crash in Huntly has described how she found a young girl distraught in the backseat of the car.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

Seven people were rescued by helicopter this morning after their four-wheel drives became stuck in an alpine river near Mount Cook.

A man has died at a Carterton homekill business this morning after a suspected medical event.

A 34-year-old mother has been charged with murder in Australia after a toddler was found dead in a bathtub.

A Sydney man proposed to his girlfriend moments after their helicopter crashed near Queenstown this week.

Emergency services are waiting for a power authority to arrive before they can rescue a person from a car that crashed into a pole in Porirua.

Young father tells of terror as his car goes up in flames - while he was trapped in the seatbelt.

A woman who died after being hit by a car early on Sunday morning has been named by Marlborough Police.