Despite being nominated for a Pride of NZ Lifetime Achievement Award by more than one person, he doesn't think he deserves it.

Ian Ridley often walks into somebody's life right at the worst point.

When Margaret Houston suffered the loss of her 5-year-old daughter, she decided to learn first aid.

Drivers are being urged to be careful after two recent crashes involving cars skidding on black ice.

There is good reason to welcome the stationing of nurses at emergency call centres to answer non-urgent calls.

Nurses will now be stationed at 111 emergency call centres to answer "non-urgent" calls as part of a wide-ranging shakeup which may also give nurses operating national helplines access to patient records.

A person has been killed in a car crash in Huntly tonight.

A car crash which sent an elderly woman to hospital after she crashed into an unmarked police car in Auckland last night is under investigation.

The digger driver killed in a quarry landslide will be farewelled on Monday.

A mentally-handicapped man, with the mental age of a 9-year-old, was accidentally strangled to death after becoming entangled in electrical bed wires.

A stolen motorbike is believed to have been involved in a crash that left one person dead, and another seriously injured.

A fire that blazed through a vacant house in Auckland last night is being treated as suspicious.

The former boss of the quarry where a landslip is feared to have killed a digger operator yesterday has spoken of previous brushes with death.

The digger driver buried under 1000 tonnes of rubble has been named as Murray Taylor.

Heavy fog this morning caused traffic disruptions on Auckland's roads and motorways, but did not interfere with flights.

Traffic is now flowing freely along Dominion Rd in Auckland after a car hit a power pole and power lines earlier this morning.

The search for a digger driver who was 'engulfed' by 1000 tonnes of rock in a North Canterbury quarry landslide has been suspended due to safety reasons.

A person has died following a crash involving a car and truck outside of Hampden, North Otago.

An attack on an Auckland train by a group of taggers near Newmarket station last night has been blasted as 'stupid and dangerous'.

Police are searching for a person who was hit by a train in Auckland tonight, but ran away afterwards, leaving shoe scuff marks on the front of the engine.

A caretaker at an Auckland school has been hospitalised with facial burns after an accident with a boiler today.

A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.

Police have confirmed that one person has died and three others have been taken to hospital after a boat overturned on the Waikato River.

Kevan Old says every volunteer fire-fighter should be recognised for their commitment to helping others.