Police are hoping to remove the remains of a body from a burnt out car near Nelson today.

Police are calling for sightings of a car as an investigations into a body found in a burnt out vehicle near Nelson continue.

A Dunollie man in his early 80s became stranded on his roof yesterday - for the second time in as many months.

A fire ripped through the rear of at Franz Josef Glacier restaurant early this morning leaving the building badly damaged.

A 20-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition after sustaining burns while adding petrol to a fire last night, a Waikato Hospital representative said.

A trapped tramper was winched to safety after spending the night on a rock ledge as wild seas surged around him.

A former top bodybuilder has died suddenly while on holiday with her family.

A young man who apparently drank too much at a party fell up to 15m down a Waikato River bank after going outside to be sick.

A fault in an electronic communications system used by emergency services is putting the lives of frontline workers at immediate risk, a union warns.

Utah couple Tammy and Richard Barnett were on “the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand” before yesterday’s fatal crash, family say.

A family's last swim of their summer holiday nearly turned to tragedy when their 5-year-old daughter passed out in the sea.

A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a reversing vehicle at a road works site in Meremere this morning.

A 20-year-old driver who got caught in the operating unit of a recycling truck today is recovering after coming out of surgery.

A McDonald's restaurant and a chain coffee shop have become temporary ambulance stations in Auckland in a bid to respond quicker to 111 calls.

A fourth American has died after three members of his family were killed in a fatal collision with a truck in Waikato last week.

A truck driver involved in a crash that killed three members of a American family and critically injured another is receiving counselling.

The US family killed in logging truck crash on Tuesday had come to New Zealand to help 20-year-old daughter settle into her new home.

'There were people sitting on their roofs, doors open and wandering around.' Northwestern motorway drivers weren't going anywhere after a six car crash last night.