A truck carrying an estimated 5700 litres of bitumen crashed between Feilding and Halcombe this morning.

A man in his 40s has died and another is in a serious condition after an ammonia gas leak at a Carlsberg factory.

Police are investigating whether a tram driver fell asleep at the wheel after at least seven people were killed when his speeding vehicle derailed.

Emergency services responding to reports of a car in the water at Blockhouse Bay today soon learned the car had been there for a number of weeks.

The body of a woman killed while crossing the road was left lying on the road for three hours after her death.

A Fire Service spokesman said the fire in Napier was contained fairly quickly.

An off-duty police officer discovered a motorcyclist killed in a crash in the Lindis Pass, Central Otago yesterday.

Initial fears people may be inside soon passed.

A motorcyclist has been killed in an accident on the Lindis Pass Tarras Rd in the South Island. A police spokeswoman said the accident

The final moments of a fire brigade's fishing competition fundraiser were cut short when the call for help went out.

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.

Drugs were allegedly found in the vicinity of a fire in an industrial unit on Burrows St today. A police spokeswoman told the Bay

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.

Dreamworld will remain closed to the public until at least after the funerals of the four victims - but staff are set to be invited back to work from next week.

One person was transported to hospital after an Invercargill house was engulfed by fire this evening.