Former supermarket manager finds a more fulfilling life working to help people.

The car driver has died and an unknown number of car passengers are injured, a police spokeswoman said.

Three people have been injured in a serious two-car collision which has closed part of a main road north of Auckland.

St John volunteer Deborah Allfrey dedicates so much of her time to the organisation that she has only three weekends to herself through to March next year.

A woman who fell and broke her arm on Mt Ruapehu today was rescued 8000 feet up by helicopter.

State Highway 16 was shut to traffic in both directions between Bradly Rd and Wharepapa Rd, Helensville, after the crash about 7.30am.

The owner of a popular cafe destroyed by fire last night is coping with the shock of losing her business, as customers mourn their "hub".

Underwater in an upside down helicopter and blindfolded is not an unusual situation for Dave Greenberg.

When Margaret Houston suffered the loss of her 5-year-old daughter, she decided to learn first aid.

Drivers are being urged to be careful after two recent crashes involving cars skidding on black ice.

There is good reason to welcome the stationing of nurses at emergency call centres to answer non-urgent calls.

Nurses will now be stationed at 111 emergency call centres to answer "non-urgent" calls as part of a wide-ranging shakeup which may also give nurses operating national helplines access to patient records.

A person has been killed in a car crash in Huntly tonight.

A car crash which sent an elderly woman to hospital after she crashed into an unmarked police car in Auckland last night is under investigation.

The Government hopes a new smartphone app for emergency services will save lives and money.

An elderly woman has been hospitalised after driving into a parked police car in Auckland tonight.

A stolen motorbike is believed to have been involved in a crash that left one person dead, and another seriously injured.

A fire that blazed through a vacant house in Auckland last night is being treated as suspicious.

The former boss of the quarry where a landslip is feared to have killed a digger operator yesterday has spoken of previous brushes with death.

The digger driver buried under 1000 tonnes of rubble has been named as Murray Taylor.

Heavy fog this morning caused traffic disruptions on Auckland's roads and motorways, but did not interfere with flights.

Traffic is now flowing freely along Dominion Rd in Auckland after a car hit a power pole and power lines earlier this morning.

The search for a digger driver who was 'engulfed' by 1000 tonnes of rock in a North Canterbury quarry landslide has been suspended due to safety reasons.

A revised plan for the country to cope in an emergency has been approved by the Government.

A female pedestrian hit by a vehicle and injured in Auckland is the latest in four similar incidents over the past two days.

A person has died following a crash involving a car and truck outside of Hampden, North Otago.