The incident in south Wairarapa. brings the holiday road toll to four.

A 4-year-old boy has drowned after being found unresponsive in a pool in the east Auckland suburb of Beachlands.

A man has been airlifted to Wellington Hospital after a violent Christmas fight between a father and son.

One person has moderate to serious injuries after a car crash in rural South Canterbury this afternoon.

A crash that closed the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington has been cleared and the tunnel has re-opened, NZTA Wellington said.

A vehicle carrying gas bottles was driven into the headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra last night.

Surf lifeguards say they're increasingly being asked to respond to emergencies outside their core brief, and warning that it is simply not sustainable.

Nobody has been hurt in a gas explosion in a Wellington suburb.

Screaming mother pulls up at Sydney home with dying daughter in the back seat.

A chemical leak which closed part of Napier Port earlier today has now been contained.

Residents who were evacuated this afternoon have been allowed to return to their homes tonight.

A van has leaked battery acid over the Southern Motorway in Auckland.

The tight-knit family-owned workplace is today grieving for the loss of two valued colleagues and friends.

The father of George Anderson, whose body was removed from rural Hangaroa yesterday afternoon, was also a pilot.

BY Kiri GillespieA yacht has become stranded on a sandbank in Tauranga Harbour, near Pilot Bay. Photo/John Borren 121216jb04bop. A

A man and two female friends were lucky to all return to shore relatively unscathed after getting into trouble in choppy seas about a kilometre off Napier port.

The 23-year-old Takapuna woman who died in Indonesia is being remembered as a "vibrant, friendly, free spirit who loved life".

The girlfriend of a 19-year-old man who drowned in an Otago lake on Saturday has criticised the lack of signage on the shore.

Police have confirmed a 19-year-old man has died while swimming in Kawarau River on Saturday.

An emergency beacon has mysteriously gone off a year after search teams recovered the bodies of its owners from Aoraki/Mt Cook.

Police are at a serious car crash on Dairy Flat Highway where three people have been hurt.

Two children suffered minor injuries after the school bus they were on collided with a van on State Highway One north of Auckland.

A woman was impaled on a fence post outside an Eden Terrace bar on Wednesday night. She was impaled by the leg near Galbraith's Alehouse

At least 10 people have been hurt, one critically and three seriously, after five serious crashes on Waikato and Bay of Plenty roads today.

A car has gone into the Waipawa River in central Hawke's Bay.

A motorcyclist has collided with a van in the suburb of Otangarei in Whangarei.

A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car outside Palmers Garden Centre in Remuera, Auckland.

The family of the man arrested over the stabbing of French tourist in Australia's Northern Territory are distraught, as the victim's wife is released from hospital.

Six fire crews are battling a "well involved" Nelson house fire and searching the property to see if anyone is inside.

A Wairarapa woman who died of injuries suffered while trying to rescue her cat from a cabbage tree had been stuck in its branches for up to two hours.