A 20-year-old male is in a serious condition after a ride on mower rolled on Waiheke Island. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter is on

Firefighters have contained a "suspicious" bush fire in Northland which at its peak threatened 30 homes.

A Fire Service spokesman said there are four fire crews at the scene, and they arrived just before 4.30pm.

Passengers have been escorted off a plane at Christchurch International Airport as police investigate a potential bomb scare.

Four houses are being threatened by a large scrub fire in Dunedin this afternoon.

Passengers from a China Southern Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Auckland International Airport this morning, are

Company directors will have to pay out almost $145,000 after a worker was killed when a quad bike flipped and trapped him underneath.

Woman found on Browns Island was stranded for three nights before being rescued.

A truck driver was quick to help rescue a woman trapped in her upside-down car.

A motorcyclist who went under a milk tanker that caught fire in a crash near Ashburton this afternoon has died.

A blaze which killed a man at a block of flats in Invercargill does not appear to be suspicious, a Fire Service authority says.

A house fire in Manawatu is being treated as suspicious.

A motorcyclist has died in Auckland tonight.

The Northland forest in which a helicopter crashed, killing two people, is so dense no wreckage was visible even from the air soon

A truck carrying a house has been involved in a crash tonight.

Masked intruders are being investigated by police in relation to two separate incidents.

UPDATE: A boat flipped this morning, with two people aboard. According to a police spokesperson, they both managed to get off the

Firefighters were called out to an Auckland house this morning after a child got its head stuck in a deck.

A man has been seriously injured while climbing a tree after it came into contact with power lines in west Auckland this afternoon. Emergency

One person is trapped after a car hit a power pole south of Auckland this morning.

Parents recall the day their 5-year-old boy died at Piha - a place he loved for the freedom it gave him.

The victim of a three-car crash near Te Puke on Friday was a local teen.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

The Australian Workers' Union said workers at Dreamworld endured a "culture of fear and intimidation".

Dreamworld could face compensation claims, massive fines and even be shut down, a leading lawyer says.

Dreamworld CEO Deborah Thomas told a press conference staff are shattered by the events and that her thoughts and prayers are with the families.

A woman has been seriously injured after she was flung from a vehicle in the Waikato and a car has flipped on the Southern Motorway.

Fire investigators have narrowed down where Monday's blaze in Hamilton started, but just exactly what caused it remains unclear.

A marketing expert says it will be very difficult for Dreamworld to rebound from the incident that claimed four people's lives.

An ambulance officer's seemingly heartless description of the victims' injuries had social media in uproar.