Three people have died on New Zealand roads so far this weekend, adding to the summer holiday road carnage.

First Union says St John is seeking to finish its bargaining without finalising a collective agreement for employees.

Emergency services are responding to reports of a person found unconscious in water in Northland.

Hundreds of litres of diesel spilled from a truck's fuel tank in a Dome Valley crash this morning.

Police have arrested two people who tried to flee after they crashed their car into a house early this morning.

St John Ambulance officers who ditch their uniforms as part of ongoing strike action will have their pay docked by 10 per cent.

A pedestrian has died after he was struck by a vehicle in Central Otago this evening.

A woman had to be winched from a remote South Island valley after slipping and falling heavily on a steep ridge track.

A man is in critical condition after a two-truck crash in Palmerston North, which has closed the road as freight spilled across both lanes.

Firefighters have cut a woman out of a car after the vehicle crashed in Whanganui.

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New Year's Eve has got off to a disastrous start to two people who were injured in a dune buggy crash in Northland this evening.

Traffic on most main highways should be easing within the next hour or so after heavy congestion yesterday and earlier today.

Party-goers who attended an unauthorised event on Lake Wanaka's Ruby Island claim safety was paramount.

Uncle tells of the moment he found his 4-year-old autistic nephew floating in his neighbour's pool.

A father performed CPR on his son while waiting for emergency services, after the boy was found in a swimming pool.

Morgan Tait talks to emergency staff about crashes in which people are injured and sometimes killed.

Fire crews remained on watch last night near the remains of a forest blaze near Dunedin.

A teen killed alongside two young friends in a "preventable" early morning crash has been remembered in an emotional tribute urging other drivers to take care.

The holiday road toll now stands at seven since Friday afternoon.

The incident in south Wairarapa. brings the holiday road toll to four.

A 4-year-old boy has drowned after being found unresponsive in a pool in the east Auckland suburb of Beachlands.

A man has been airlifted to Wellington Hospital after a violent Christmas fight between a father and son.

One person has moderate to serious injuries after a car crash in rural South Canterbury this afternoon.

A crash that closed the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington has been cleared and the tunnel has re-opened, NZTA Wellington said.

A vehicle carrying gas bottles was driven into the headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra last night.

Surf lifeguards say they're increasingly being asked to respond to emergencies outside their core brief, and warning that it is simply not sustainable.

Nobody has been hurt in a gas explosion in a Wellington suburb.

Screaming mother pulls up at Sydney home with dying daughter in the back seat.

Kaitaia-based Highway Patrol constable Darren Critchley thought his working day was over at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon but it was only just beginning...