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.

New specialist traffic officers will be used to issue speeding tickets, freeing police to concentrate on fighting crime.

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.

Power is back on in most areas of Timaru after a major blackout when a substation caught fire this morning.

A fire at a Timaru power substation has caused a city-wide power outage.

Up to 100 fires are burning across NSW as a large swathe of the state begins a day of total fire bans.

Vast tracts of South Australia are preparing for another baking day of catastrophic fire risk after yesterday's 40C-plus temperatures.