
Search for diver called off for night
The search for a diver reported overdue in the Marlborough Sounds has been called off for the night.
The search for a diver reported overdue in the Marlborough Sounds has been called off for the night.
A Flaxmere man found guilty of killing his 2-year-old stepson yesterday will leave behind an unborn child.
The jury verdict was returned at the High Court in Napier today after six hours of deliberations.
A motorcyclist who collided with a school bus south of Whangarei was flown to the Middlemore Hospital with spinal injuries. The crash
The pilot involved in the Melbourne air crash was under investigation for a previous incident that had been deferred three times due to "workload".
It may be wondered whether a country of NZ's size and population is well served by such a fragmented civil defence organisation.
Police have named the man who died in a car crash on State Highway 3 north of New Plymouth yesterday.
Plane buffs are devastated after bad weather forced the cancellation of Wings Over Wairarapa, but none more so than the organisers.
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.
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
Port Hills fire updates: Amazing images show the extent of the damage from the air, and just how close it came to some properties.
A tree surgeon died in a London backyard after a his chainsaw apparently 'kicked back' into his neck.
Four homes were evacuated, but residents have since returned to their homes.
New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.
At least four people have been killed in an avalanche in the ski resort of Tignes, in the French Alps.
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.
EXCLUSIVE: Shelley Crooks has broken her silence on her miracle, six-week survival in the rugged West Coast bush.
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.
Power is back on in hundreds of homes around the Auckland region after widespread outages overnight.
Mercury Energy is reviewing its procedures to see if it can improve safety after a woman was swept to her death by the surging waters of the Waikato River.
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.