Andrew Jones measures his survival from a near-deadly heart attack in 5-minute events. His cardiologist said it was the difference between life and death.

A man has died following a single-car crash early this morning.

The hunter shot dead in the Ruahine Ranges yesterday was 23-year-old Danny Rion Jordan.

A South Auckland laundromat has been badly damaged by fire overnight.

Fire ripped through a Christchurch family's dream home hours after they moved in.

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The accident happened just before 7am. One vehicle rolled and one person had to pulled from a car by firefighters.

Colin James Rimmer, known as CJ by his grandchildren, died last Wednesday while carrying out gardening work in Mellons Bay.

One man is in hospital with a serious head injury after the car he was driving rolled on a South Island road early this morning.

A man has died after falling from a cliff while carrying out gardening work at Mellons Bay, Auckland.

A climber who was reported missing on Mt Taranaki last night has been rescued in the early hours of this morning.

Two people are dead and one left fighting for his life after three separate water-related incidences over the weekend.

Emergency services responded to the incident at 10am yesterday on a farm inland from Porangahau, Hawkes Bay.

It has been burning in 25 hectares of bush in steep terrain on Vernon Station, near Blenheim.

A rescue is underway near Raglan after a person was sucked out to sea out by a rip this afternoon.

Principal Rural Fire Officer Richard McNamara says five planes and ground crews worked on the scene until it got dark, when the aircraft were withdrawn.

"One of the tyres exploded off it to the side of the road and set bush on the side of the road on fire."

The heroic efforts of two off-duty nurses help save the life of a young boy who lost consciousness at a popular swimming pool north-west of Auckland.

Staff of Signlink Graphics in Hokitika were in clean-up mode this morning after a blaze that took firefighters more than two hours to extinguish.

A mother was found dead on her living room floor after a nurse cancelled an ambulance that was just one minute away.

A scrub fire in Upper Hutt has forced homes to be evacuated, a firefighter to be hospitalised and roads to be closed.

The Waimate Hotel in Manaia, south of New Plymouth, has been destroyed by fire.

The Waimate Hotel in Manaia, south of New Plymouth, has been destroyed by fire early this morning.

A woman was trapped in her car for over an hour after a crash in Dairy Flat this evening.

A child remains in a critical condition and a woman has been transferred to Auckland City Hospital after two people died in a crash in rural Waikato.

New Zealand's main ambulance service has warned it will need to hike charges or stop going to some emergencies.

We have a very good ambulance service, provided largely by volunteers and partly financed by charges to those who are taken to hospital in emergencies.