A chemical which can cause severe skin and eye irritation has been spilled in Moteuka.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

Two people are injured after their car clipped a milk tanker just south of Taranaki.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

A man was injured at the Dunedin District Court this morning.

Emergency services are scrambling to prevent polluted waste spilling into waterways after a tanker crashed in South Auckland.

A young woman is dead after the car she was driving crashed into a stream during a police pursuit in Rotorua.

St John Front line paramedics Jared Ranudo and Harrison Smythe talk about their lucky escape. They were hit by a speeding vehicle, which overturned their ambulance. After escaping from the wreckage, they attended to the person in the vehicle that crashed into them.

Two paramedics escaped from their upturned ambulance and rushed to treat a driver trapped in a wrecked car which had smashed into them.

A woman who was missing after a house fire in Castlecliff has been found alive. Police yesterday searched for a person who remained

Five people are suffering minor injuries after a bus with 39 people on board veered off the road near Central North Island's Tangiwai.

The woman's daughter (pictured) is on trial charged with manslaughter after the 76-year-old was discovered in bed on a tarpaulin, lying in her own excrement.

A 63-year-old Whitianga man was airlifted to Waikato Hospital yesterday after he fell through a roof.

Desert Rd down to one lane after crash.

A Castlecliff family was left shaken on Monday morning after a stolen car crashed through their front yard and into their neighbour's

A Housing NZ house has been destroyed by fire and a young woman taken to hospital suffering burns.

A person is dead after an accident in Hawkes Bay.

Name suppression lapses for woman accused in Dome Valley kidnapping case.

The toddler who died in a Christchurch stadium carpark was pinned between a van and a low fence.

Delays expected after collision in Christchurch.

An Auckland Council worker has escaped serious injury after his car was struck by a freight train in West Auckland this morning.

Emergency services in southern Wairarapa are busy today dealing with three car crashes, the most serious of which saw a woman flown to hospital by helicopter.

The road between Raglan and Hamilton is blocked tonight after a fatal road crash.

A woman injured in a fatal car crash on State Highway 1 is now in a stable condition in hospital.

SH1 is now closed between Warkworth and Wellsford, and motorists are advised to use SH16 as an alternative route.

Roof of Risingholme Community Centre collapses after blaze rips through it.

Eleven people have died on our roads up until midnight, the highest number of deaths for a Queen's Birthday weekend since 1989.

Two people are trapped after a head-on crash on State Highway 2 between Bethlehem and Katikati.