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.

The digger driver killed in a quarry landslide will be farewelled on Monday.

A mentally-handicapped man, with the mental age of a 9-year-old, was accidentally strangled to death after becoming entangled in electrical bed wires.

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.

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.

An attack on an Auckland train by a group of taggers near Newmarket station last night has been blasted as 'stupid and dangerous'.

A caretaker at an Auckland school has been hospitalised with facial burns after an accident with a boiler today.

A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.

Police have confirmed that one person has died and three others have been taken to hospital after a boat overturned on the Waikato River.

Kevan Old says every volunteer fire-fighter should be recognised for their commitment to helping others.

The fire service was called to the scene of a suspected gas leak at the Picton ferry terminal last night.

A man has been stabbed in Manurewa today following an argument between two men on the street.

Wellington's wild weather has claimed the life of an elderly man, whose car became submerged as raging floodwaters rose across the area.

Two people have died in a crash on a Christchurch motorway this evening.

An 11-month-old girl is fighting for her life after being run over by a small truck in a Paeroa driveway this afternoon.