As a trained firefighter, Buddy Harwood is no stranger to saving lives.

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

Fire crews are fighting a "well involved" house fire in Stanmore Bay on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, north of Auckland.

A female motorcyclist who crashed on the Southern Motorway yesterday has died in hospital this morning.

Three motorbike crashes on the country's roads this weekend have left five people hospitalised.

A pregnant woman has been flown to hospital after being hit by a car near Nelson.

A large fire has destroyed a farm house on Great Barrier Island after it was spotted by off-duty Fire Service staff staying at a hotel on the island.

An Otago man on a suspended licence continued driving a car as it fell apart around him, only stopping when the engine finally gave up.

A car driven by tourists was seen on the wrong side of the road shortly before it crashed on the West Coast of the South Island yesterday, killing one.

Smoke alarms are not most people's idea of a Christmas present, but the Fire Service wants us to think about them anyway.

Ten Kiwis have died in house fires this year where working smoke alarms hadn't been installed.

Stocky 45-year-old man was charged with male assaults female and assaulting with intent to injure.

Three people killed in a horror smash in Central Otago this afternoon were all foreign nationals, police say.

A man police were seeking following a death at a rural West Auckland address last night has been found in Wanganui.

Friends of a boy buried beneath a mound of dirt ran to neighbouring homes to ask for help yesterday.

Senior students went to the rescue of a year 9 rowing team when their skiff was hit by a powerboat driven by a coach in Otago Harbour this morning.

The son of a man killed in a controlled scrub burn-off in North Canterbury has paid tribute to "an extraordinary father figure".

A man killed in a controlled scrub burn-off near Arthur’s Pass in the South Island was believed to have been overcome by smoke inhalation.

The two women who became lost in the Kaimai Ranges have been found, unhurt and in good spirits.