A woman who was one of the first to scene of a fatal crash in Huntly has described how she found a young girl distraught in the backseat of the car.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

Seven people were rescued by helicopter this morning after their four-wheel drives became stuck in an alpine river near Mount Cook.

A man has died at a Carterton homekill business this morning after a suspected medical event.

A 34-year-old mother has been charged with murder in Australia after a toddler was found dead in a bathtub.

A Sydney man proposed to his girlfriend moments after their helicopter crashed near Queenstown this week.

Emergency services are waiting for a power authority to arrive before they can rescue a person from a car that crashed into a pole in Porirua.

Young father tells of terror as his car goes up in flames - while he was trapped in the seatbelt.

Two trampers reported missing in the Hunua Ranges south of Auckland overnight have been found safe and well this afternoon.

One person is dead after a house fire in the Canterbury suburb of Amberly.

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle early this morning on State Highway 6 between Pelorus and Havelock, Marlborough.

Emergency services were busy in Auckland on Thursday night after a three car collision in Epsom and another car crashing through eight fences in New Lynn.

An ambulance has crashed in Dunedin with a patient on board after losing control on a slick surface

Two 13-year-old schoolgirls 'had a scrap'' at McDonald's Restaurant in George St yesterday afternoon, police said.

A 21-year-old woman was taken to hospital this evening following an incident with a stove in Mt Wellington.

A woman was flown to hospital after collapsing in an Auckland volcanic cone crater.

An emergency services call out to Te Puna Wai youth justice facility last night was due to a group of girls huffing aerosol cans, police have confirmed.

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.

Emergency services are scrambling to prevent polluted waste spilling into waterways after a tanker crashed in South Auckland.

A young woman is dead after the car she was driving crashed into a stream during a police pursuit in Rotorua.

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