A truck has caught on fire in Waikato blocking part of State Highway 27.

A female pedestrian has suffered life threatening injuries after being struck by a petrol tanker in central Dunedin this morning.

One person was seriously injured when a car crashed into a powerpole in Wellington early this morning.

A pilot trapped in a crashed microlight plane in the Central North Island has been freed by rescue crews.

Eight members of a family who were injured when their van hurtled down a cliff on the Napier Taupo road last week are recovering well in hospital, a family member says.

A West Auckland police station is on lockdown after a member of the public brought in an unknown object that he'd dug up in his garden.

A German tourist who was shot while hunting near Gisborne on Christmas Eve has been transferred to Auckland Hospital's critical care department.

A drunk driver who fled the scene of an early morning crash in Waikato could be seriously injured and police are "seriously concerned" about his whereabouts.

A police car was rammed by a driver in a stolen truck, who then escaped by driving the wrong way along the Auckland motorway overnight.

A German couple beaten and robbed in their tent in Whakatane early this morning have received an "overwhelming'' number of offers of help.

The two killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby appeared intent on removing his organs during a frenzied knife attack, witnesses told the Old Bailey yesterday.

A teenage mother fighting for her life after she was hit by a car allegedly driven by her partner suffered two punctured lungs, a broken leg and a fractured neck, her sister says.

Two teenagers are still fighting for their lives after they were struck by vehicles in separate incidents around Rotorua yesterday.

The owners of a Picton house hit by a landslip yesterday have been told the property is temporarily unfit to live in.