The rescue was of Hollywood proportions... A man and his wife are in a taxi, they see a little boy standing on the tracks...

The deaths of four people in house fires across the country in the past five days could have been prevented, the Fire Service says.

A witness to the accident in which a truck driver was impaled by a canoe says it was "swinging out on to the oncoming lane like a jousting pole".

Police are searching for a man who smashed a car into an overbridge near Levin and took off on foot early today.

A woman's habit of buying a Lotto ticket in each new town she visits has paid off.

A critically injured man who was struck by a train in Levin has woken up and acknowledged his name is Alan.

Police have released photographs of the injured man as a "last resort" in an effort to identify him.

The name Alan was muttered by the man hit by a train in Levin on Friday night and may offer a clue to his identity.

A motorcyclist was spotted travelling along a busy stretch of SH1 at a speed described by one officer as unsurvivable if there was a crash.

Once, cycling was dominated by couriers and lycra-clad racers.

Steven Joyce says the toll on the Transmission Gully route will be no more than $3.

Wellington's mayor lauds a move to proceed with Transmission Gully but her Kapiti counterpart admits to being "extremely disappointed".

The long-awaited Transmission Gully route has been approved as part of a $2.2 billion upgrade of State Highway 1 from Wellington to Levin.