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.

Detectives are investigating a number of fights that broke out in downtown Auckland which left two young men seriously injured.

The pedestrian, aged about 45 to 50, was taken to hospital in critical condition after being hit on Grey's Avenue about 8.45am, a St John spokeswoman said.

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Richard McNamara says five planes and ground crews worked on the scene until it got dark, when the aircraft were withdrawn.

A woman is in a critical condition in Wellington Hospital tonight after being struck by a vehicle near the city's airport.

Road blocks have been put in place and homes are being evacuated after a burn-off in Canterbury went out of control in high winds.

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.

Two people are dead and four others injured - two critically, including a child - after a crash in Waikato yesterday afternoon.

The head of St John Ambulance has warned the Government it will stop sending some ambulances within two years because it can't guarantee patients' safety.