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

Invercargill police find a man with a gun in the second firearm incident in two days.

Five fire engines were sent to the scene at 11.45pm when a tallow tank caught fire at the plant on the northern outskirts of Invercargill.

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

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.

One person is dead after a house fire in the Canterbury suburb of Amberly.

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle early this morning on State Highway 6 between Pelorus and Havelock, Marlborough.

Emergency services were busy in Auckland on Thursday night after a three car collision in Epsom and another car crashing through eight fences in New Lynn.

An ambulance has crashed in Dunedin with a patient on board after losing control on a slick surface

Two 13-year-old schoolgirls 'had a scrap'' at McDonald's Restaurant in George St yesterday afternoon, police said.

A 21-year-old woman was taken to hospital this evening following an incident with a stove in Mt Wellington.

A woman was flown to hospital after collapsing in an Auckland volcanic cone crater.

An emergency services call out to Te Puna Wai youth justice facility last night was due to a group of girls huffing aerosol cans, police have confirmed.

The death yesterday was just hours after a three-car accident on State Highway 5 which claimed one life and left two others in critical condition.

Detective Sargent Todd McDonald details police procedure on burglary cases. Video / Jason Oxenham

As fire fighters were trying to open the door, the boy's father returned to the car at the Tepid Baths car park.

A newborn baby has been flown to hospital with serious head injuries.