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Fireman pictured fighting blaze had arson conviction
A volunteer firefighter failed to mention his conviction for arson when he applied for duty with a rural fire force.

All the ways to die in NZ
TV blogger Paul Casserly looks back at 60 years of safety films warning of all the ways to die in New Zealand.

Two killed in 'horrific' crash
'Atrocious conditions' were partially to blame for a horror crash in Marlborough this afternoon, which killed two tourists.

Crash throws man into lagoon
A 38-year-old man was killed when he was thrown into Ahuriri Lagoon in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Hawkes Bay expressway.

Woman dead after logging truck crash
Northland's grim road toll continues after a woman was killed when a logging truck, trying to avoid another vehicle, rolled and crushed the car she was a passenger in.

CTV: 'No confusion' over leadership
A Fire Service has disagreed strongly with some earlier witnesses at the CTV inquest that there was confusion over leadership on February 22 last year.

Fatal fall inside university building
A man in his twenties is dead after falling six stories onto the crowded floor of the Owen Glenn Building at Auckland University.

Gas canisters found near body
Police are trying to establish whether the death of a man whose body was found in Dunedin's Botanic Gardens today is the latest in a spate of "huffing" deaths.

21 in hospital after spill
21 people have been taken to hospital following a chemical spill at a tanning factory in Wanganui, two in critical condition.

CTV: Emotional u-turn failed to pay off
Search and rescue units were told to stop scouring the collapsed CTV Building's rubble for survivors within 24 hours of it coming down.

Dad pleads for no more violence
The family of bashed Martinborough man Peter Fisher have made a plea to locals not to take matters into their own hands.