An 11-year-old boy impaled at an Auckland school this morning asked his rescuers not to amputate his leg as they cut him off a school fence. He slipped while climbing the fence but is unlikely to suffer permanent damage.

Wairoa residents may not have water for days after a landslip damaged the town's main supply.

Hawke's Bay farmers face stock losses as rain continues to pound the region, closing roads...

Emergency services are responding to reports of an explosion in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga.

An injured hunter was winched out of the Kaimanawa Forest today after he fell and injured himself.

Firefighters have brought a blaze at an apartment block in central Auckland this afternoon under control.

A person has escaped injury after being trapped under rubble when high winds ripped off a large section of roof in a South Auckland industrial area.

A crash involving a truck and a car has downed power lines on State Highway 1 in south Canterbury.

Firefighter Merv Neil has won a New Zealand Bravery Award for his fearless work in the Waikato coolstore fire.

Police have named one of two men who died in a horrific crash near Oamaru in north Otago this morning.

A man is dead and another is in a critical condition after a horrific crash north of Palmerston, Otago, this morning.