Emergency services have been called to the scene after a car crashed down a bank in Henderson.

The road between Raglan and Hamilton is blocked tonight after a fatal road crash.

When Lee Rata was severely beaten last year, Seddon Beazley took the opportunity to further his standing with the Mongrel Mob. However, his mother knew different.

A Whangarei steel company is thrilled at winning a Convention Centre steel contract, which has already started providing new jobs for Northlanders, with more on the way.

Napier MP Stuart Nash says he has lost confidence in the region's police district commander.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has launched an investigation into the deaths of three horses at Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse on Monday.

The man who died after falling while climbing Mt Taranaki was a French national.

There were four jumps races at Ellerslie. A horse was dead after all but one of them. It has sparked renewed calls for steeplechase racing to be banned.

The Waikato policeman who escorted a heavily pregnant woman and her husband to Hamilton has been congratulated by his boss for doing the right thing.

Three members of the Plymouth Brethren church were among the fatalities over the long weekend.

The truck driver accused of ploughing his truck into a motorway overbridge, causing hours of gridlock in Auckland, was excused from appearing in court today.

Nazi concentration camp survivor Bob Narev has spent his life trying to warn people about the dangers of standing by and letting others be cruel.

Kiwi remembers the day his dying grandfather took him to see Muhammad Ali.

Two dramatic videos have been released showing how Northland's forests are collapsing due to chronic underfunding of the Department of Conservation and lack of pest control.

An autistic man has been locked in a tiny, isolated area of a mental health unit for five years despite top-level warnings his treatment breaches human rights.

Showers are on their way with a northeast flow spreading across the country from tomorrow.

Boy, 14, thrown onto car bonnet, before hitting the road.

A man with Parkinson's disease who went missing in the Glenn Innes area has been found and is safe.

WATCH: Two liquor store workers turn the tables on their attempted robbers.

The Queen's Birthday road toll is now up to seven following the death of a man involved in a crash yesterday.

Three fire trucks and ambulance staff are at the scene, on Cumberland Crescent in Welcome Bay.

The teen and a 9-year-old, who suffered serious injuries, were in a car which crashed into a tree on Ferguson St in Mangere at about 9.15am yesterday.

When Samson Faulafo and his friends pointed out to a family they'd dropped a $10 note at Denny's, they didn't expect anything in return.

Two children have been treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire near Rotorua this morning.

The death of a motorcyclist this afternoon has brought the long weekend road toll to three in just 24 hours.