The death yesterday was just hours after a three-car accident on State Highway 5 which claimed one life and left two others in critical condition.

Detective Sargent Todd McDonald details police procedure on burglary cases. Video / Jason Oxenham

As fire fighters were trying to open the door, the boy's father returned to the car at the Tepid Baths car park.

A newborn baby has been flown to hospital with serious head injuries.

A chemical which can cause severe skin and eye irritation has been spilled in Moteuka.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

Two people are injured after their car clipped a milk tanker just south of Taranaki.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

A man was injured at the Dunedin District Court this morning.

St John Front line paramedics Jared Ranudo and Harrison Smythe talk about their lucky escape. They were hit by a speeding vehicle, which overturned their ambulance. After escaping from the wreckage, they attended to the person in the vehicle that crashed into them.

Two paramedics escaped from their upturned ambulance and rushed to treat a driver trapped in a wrecked car which had smashed into them.

A blazing wheelie bin, exploding spaghetti, and a hunt for the culprit through the dark streets of Whanganui made for an eventful

About 40 households in a remote area of Waikato have been without access to a reliable phone line for weeks.

A woman who was missing after a house fire in Castlecliff has been found alive. Police yesterday searched for a person who remained

Five people are suffering minor injuries after a bus with 39 people on board veered off the road near Central North Island's Tangiwai.

The woman's daughter (pictured) is on trial charged with manslaughter after the 76-year-old was discovered in bed on a tarpaulin, lying in her own excrement.

A 63-year-old Whitianga man was airlifted to Waikato Hospital yesterday after he fell through a roof.

Desert Rd down to one lane after crash.

A person is dead after an accident in Hawkes Bay.

Name suppression lapses for woman accused in Dome Valley kidnapping case.

Emergency services were called to a "well involved" fire in a two-storey Penrose Street house at about 1pm today.

A Singapore Airlines flight to Milan has caught fire after returning to Changi Airport following an engine oil warning message.

The toddler who died in a Christchurch stadium carpark was pinned between a van and a low fence.

Delays expected after collision in Christchurch.

An Auckland Council worker has escaped serious injury after his car was struck by a freight train in West Auckland this morning.

Emergency services in southern Wairarapa are busy today dealing with three car crashes, the most serious of which saw a woman flown to hospital by helicopter.

The road between Raglan and Hamilton is blocked tonight after a fatal road crash.

A woman injured in a fatal car crash on State Highway 1 is now in a stable condition in hospital.