A woman in her 40s is fighting for her life after she was hit by a truck at Turua near Thames.

Police have today pulled a body from the Takaka River - that of missing man James Rano Dick, known locally as Hemi.

A feline passenger in a car which crashed in the Buller Gorge this morning ended up going to hospital by ambulance with its owner.

A truck and car were involved in a serious accident north of Christchurch this morning.

A fellow boatie said he had laid complaints about skipper Bill McNatty's competence.

Central Hawke's Bay College is on lockdown due to the threat of toxic smoke from a fire at the derelict Waipukurau Hospital's nurses' quarters.

Naked, with two lifejackets pinned under each arm, Iripa Iripa crawled up Muriwai Beach.

A survivor of the Kaipara Harbour disaster was too big for the lifejackets, and desperately clung to the flotation devices while he swam to shore badly injured.

Police have suspended the search for the man still missing from yesterday's Kaipara Harbour tragedy until 5.30am tomorrow, because

A sixth person has died almost a week after Melbourne was hit by an unprecedented thunderstorm asthma outbreak.

A seven-year-old boy whose head got stuck in an electric gate near Auckland's Botanic Gardens yesterday is in a stable condition in intensive care.

Two more bodies have been recovered this morning following a fishing charter boat sinking on the Kaipara Harbour, taking the toll to seven with one person still missing.

Emergency services are at the scene of a major crash in rural Hawke's Bay tonight.

Onlookers desperately tried to free a 7-year-old boy whose head became stuck in an electric gate near Auckland Botanic Gardens this afternoon.

A pregnant woman is in hospital after suffering critical injuries when the car she was driving and another vehicle collided in the Dome Valley.

Two Canterbury fires are being treated as suspicious after being discovered one street apart in the early hours of Saturday morning.

One person is in a critical condition follow a two-car crash on State Highway 1, just north of Tirau.

Panicked driver called emergency services, desperately seeking help, as his car hurtled along a motorway for eight minutes before the call ended abruptly.

A woman who was in one of the cars crushed when a 30m tree fell at Cornwall Park has been reunited with the man who came to her rescue.

More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

Three workmen were hospitalised after a gas pipe was cut at Massey University in Palmerston North today.

Police have pulled a body from the Waikato river after a group of people lost sight of their friend in the waterway earlier.

A Fire Service spokeswoman said eight trucks were at the scene, and they were notified of it at 8.30pm.

A number of other patients remain in intensive care and one person is critical, the health minister said today.

Emergency services are in attendance at an airfield in Manawatu.

An American tourist was hit and killed by a truck in Tauranga after booking a cycling tour while visiting the city on the cruise ship Celebrity Solstice.

A woman and her son-in-law have told of the "horrific" moment a day out with family turned into a near-death experience.

A van had flipped on its roof, a police spokeswoman said.

An accident along Whanganui's Mosston Rd which knocked out power to nearly 200 homes has prompted calls for a speed camera in the

Emergency services are at the scene of a one car crash at the intersection of Waikite Valley Rd and SH5, south of Rotorua.