A father performed CPR on his son while waiting for emergency services, after the boy was found in a swimming pool.

Morgan Tait talks to emergency staff about crashes in which people are injured and sometimes killed.

Fire crews remained on watch last night near the remains of a forest blaze near Dunedin.

The fire on Signal Hill in Dunedin has been contained, but about 40 firefighters and three helicopters are continuing to fight the blaze.

Three young teenagers died in a high-speed car crash when their vehicle, driven by a 14-year-old, slammed into a tree.

A teen killed alongside two young friends in a "preventable" early morning crash has been remembered in an emotional tribute urging other drivers to take care.

The holiday road toll now stands at seven since Friday afternoon.

The incident in south Wairarapa. brings the holiday road toll to four.

A 4-year-old boy has drowned after being found unresponsive in a pool in the east Auckland suburb of Beachlands.

A crash that closed the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington has been cleared and the tunnel has re-opened, NZTA Wellington said.

A vehicle carrying gas bottles was driven into the headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra last night.

Surf lifeguards say they're increasingly being asked to respond to emergencies outside their core brief, and warning that it is simply not sustainable.

Nobody has been hurt in a gas explosion in a Wellington suburb.

Screaming mother pulls up at Sydney home with dying daughter in the back seat.

Kaitaia-based Highway Patrol constable Darren Critchley thought his working day was over at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon but it was only just beginning...

Firefighters are working in warm conditions to douse the fire at Te Hauke, south of Hastings.

A chemical leak which closed part of Napier Port earlier today has now been contained.

Residents who were evacuated this afternoon have been allowed to return to their homes tonight.

The father of George Anderson, whose body was removed from rural Hangaroa yesterday afternoon, was also a pilot.

BY Kiri GillespieA yacht has become stranded on a sandbank in Tauranga Harbour, near Pilot Bay. Photo/John Borren 121216jb04bop. A

A man and two female friends were lucky to all return to shore relatively unscathed after getting into trouble in choppy seas about a kilometre off Napier port.

The 23-year-old Takapuna woman who died in Indonesia is being remembered as a "vibrant, friendly, free spirit who loved life".

The girlfriend of a 19-year-old man who drowned in an Otago lake on Saturday has criticised the lack of signage on the shore.

A 500sqm vegetation fire near Uretiti Beach DOC campsite, just south of Ruakaka has been contained.

A 23-year-old Takapuna woman has been identified as the Kiwi who died when a Contiki minivan crashed off a cliff in South Lombok.

Police have confirmed a 19-year-old man has died while swimming in Kawarau River on Saturday.

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