Shot in both legs, Constable Snow fell, screaming for help. One bullet severed an artery in his leg and he was bleeding to death.

A Christmas party on a luxury yacht turned tragic with the "suspicious death" of a party-goer.

Railway lines near an Auckland train station have been closed after the discovery of a person's body early today, police said.

A lethal combination of soaring temperatures and high winds gave the New South Wales bushfire season a vicious jolt with more than 80 fires raging across the state.

Big fines and reparation bills have been given to two companies and a company director charged over last year's fatal Waikato coolstore fire.

An 11-year-old boy was trapped in a crashed car with his dead grandfather for 20 minutes yesterday.

A 6-year-old girl was crushed to death before her father's eyes yesterday after her quadbike rolled.

An investigation is underway after a unmanned fire truck took off from a station and ended up down a bank metres short of a house.

Blood, fat and discarded pieces of butchered animals were spread 15km on SH2 after a tailgate opened on a truck.

Officers searching for a runaway car were stunned to suddenly see "sparks flying and the car heading straight towards them" at an intersection.

A police recruitment drive is aiming to almost double the number of female police officers working the beat.

Police say a gunshot was reported in Hastings about midday today.

The grieving family of a teenager killed in a high-speed, head-on crash say they will never get over his death.

A school minivan has collided with a car leaving five students injured in the Far North town of Te Kao.

A former ambulance driver who indecently assaulted vulnerable patients in the back of his ambulance isn't sure why he did it.

St John paramedic Mechelle Wharton wasn't going to let a broken leg stop her saving a child.