A Fire Service spokesman said firefighters from Invercargill Station were called to a house fire in Ettrick St at 5.40pm.

The first incident involved a nine-year-old boy who came off his motorcycle at a southern Waikato motocross event.

One person has died after the campervan they were travelling in caught fire in an accident on a Matamata Road.

A woman has been flown to hospital by helicopter after she was injured in a head-on crash north of Wellington this afternoon.

The vehicles collided at the intersection of Swanson Rd and Metcalfe Rd, Swanson, about 1.45pm.

The car flipped on State Highway 30 near Lake Rotoiti Forest.

Emergency services were called to the McMeeking Rd property shortly before 3.30pm.

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A fire broke out just before 3.30 this morning in a cafe on the ground floor of the Ocean Breeze apartments in Browns Bay.

A man has died following a single-car crash early this morning.

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A South Auckland laundromat has been badly damaged by fire overnight.

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The accident happened just before 7am. One vehicle rolled and one person had to pulled from a car by firefighters.

Detectives are investigating a number of fights that broke out in downtown Auckland which left two young men seriously injured.

One man is in hospital with a serious head injury after the car he was driving rolled on a South Island road early this morning.

A man has died after falling from a cliff while carrying out gardening work at Mellons Bay, Auckland.

A climber who was reported missing on Mt Taranaki last night has been rescued in the early hours of this morning.

Two people are dead and one left fighting for his life after three separate water-related incidences over the weekend.

Emergency services responded to the incident at 10am yesterday on a farm inland from Porangahau, Hawkes Bay.

It has been burning in 25 hectares of bush in steep terrain on Vernon Station, near Blenheim.

A rescue is underway near Raglan after a person was sucked out to sea out by a rip this afternoon.

Principal Rural Fire Officer Richard McNamara says five planes and ground crews worked on the scene until it got dark, when the aircraft were withdrawn.

A woman is in a critical condition in Wellington Hospital tonight after being struck by a vehicle near the city's airport.

Road blocks have been put in place and homes are being evacuated after a burn-off in Canterbury went out of control in high winds.

"One of the tyres exploded off it to the side of the road and set bush on the side of the road on fire."

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