Another big chunk of the hillside which collapsed in Wellington this morning could break off at any minute, Wellington City Council warns.

Survival rates for cardiac arrest, strokes and trauma victims are among the medical records that the new St John boss wants hospitals to provide in order to improve patient care.

A man who was forced to drive his mother to hospital after an ambulance didn't turn up, says she bore the brunt of a failed trial.

A Christchurch man who suffered fatal injuries when the disk grinder he was using sliced into his chest has been named.

A man who witnessed a car drive down a wharf and plunge into the Tamaki River in Auckland last night says he felt helpless as he watched the vehicle sink.

An Auckland man who gave CPR to a toddler found face down in a hot pool has played down his actions.

A Rotorua man who was on the scene within seconds of a road worker being shot dead near Tokoroa says the victim was found with a hole in his head.

The family of a roadworker gunned down on an isolated South Waikato road were last night grieving for a cheeky, lovely and gentle man.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of road worker George Taiaroa near Tokoroa yesterday say no one heard gun shots.

A man has been shot and killed this afternoon in a forestry area at Kinleith, near Tokoroa, with police launching a homicide inquiry.

An elderly woman was seriously injured in a three-car crash which closed northbound traffic on State Highway 2 between Wellington and Lower Hutt.

A 16-month-old toddler has been hit and killed by a car in Rotorua this evening.

Frustrated commuters are calling for a change in retail working hours after a motorway crash caused gridlock across Auckland.

A large glass pane has fallen out of the SAP building on the corner of Queen and Wyndham streets.

An Eketahuna farmer's wife was seriously injured in a two-car crash yesterday.

Inner-city Auckland traffic was brought to a virtual standstill after a motorway crash - gridlock that the Automobile Association described as the worst it had seen.

Tauranga's longest serving paramedic has decided to call it a day after a 48-year association with St John.

A helicopter searched at sea for a man seriously bleeding after he fell through a boat window - only for the man to be found on his boat back in the bay.

When 3-year-old Corban Martin suffered a severe allergic reaction to cashew nuts, his mother was dismayed to be told there were no ambulances available to take him to hospital.

What caused a Hororata pilot to fly his glider into the side of a mountain near Omarama in a fatal crash in January last year may never be definitively known.

Homeowners could have to pay more in Fire Service levies under a proposed shake-up of the way the service is funded.