A motorcyclist who went under a milk tanker that caught fire in a crash near Ashburton this afternoon has died.

A blaze which killed a man at a block of flats in Invercargill does not appear to be suspicious, a Fire Service authority says.

A house fire in Manawatu is being treated as suspicious.

A motorcyclist has died in Auckland tonight.

The Northland forest in which a helicopter crashed, killing two people, is so dense no wreckage was visible even from the air soon

A truck carrying a house has been involved in a crash tonight.

Masked intruders are being investigated by police in relation to two separate incidents.

UPDATE: A boat flipped this morning, with two people aboard. According to a police spokesperson, they both managed to get off the

Firefighters were called out to an Auckland house this morning after a child got its head stuck in a deck.

A man has been seriously injured while climbing a tree after it came into contact with power lines in west Auckland this afternoon. Emergency

One person is trapped after a car hit a power pole south of Auckland this morning.

Parents recall the day their 5-year-old boy died at Piha - a place he loved for the freedom it gave him.

The victim of a three-car crash near Te Puke on Friday was a local teen.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

The Australian Workers' Union said workers at Dreamworld endured a "culture of fear and intimidation".

Dreamworld could face compensation claims, massive fines and even be shut down, a leading lawyer says.

Dreamworld CEO Deborah Thomas told a press conference staff are shattered by the events and that her thoughts and prayers are with the families.

A woman has been seriously injured after she was flung from a vehicle in the Waikato and a car has flipped on the Southern Motorway.

An ambulance officer's seemingly heartless description of the victims' injuries had social media in uproar.

A Kiwi woman's 10-year-old son watched her die in a horrific accident at a Gold Coast theme park.

An unstable and fire-damaged wall will remain in place when fire investigators begin their painstaking work of trying to figure out

A man has died after driving off an embankment in a rural town 45km southwest of Auckland central this morning.

Emergency services are at a car crash in Henderson.

The Labour weekend road toll stands at two today, after a woman critically injured in a Paekakariki crash died in hospital.

One person has died in a crash near Wallacetown in Southland.

One person died and another was taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a quad bike accident at Kuratau near Taupo overnight.

One person is in hospital and another has been arrested following a stabbing in Paeroa last night.

There was a large-scale response from fire crews around Auckland after smoke was detected in a downtown tower this evening.

Motorists are being diverted away from a section of State Highway 2 after a serious crash this afternoon.

Details of a house fire in Onehunga where a 6-year-old girl perished and her six siblings survived have been revealed by the Coroner.