Part of the stadium that will host the World Cup opener in Brazil next year collapsed today, causing significant damage and killing two people, authorities said.

Friends of the four dead people say it was a miracle the collision over Auckland killed no one else.

'I just saw the whole slab that just came down and all you could hear was the guys screaming.' A witness describes a half-built mall collapse where 50 are trapped.

Ten days before Jason Gibson died, he visited his parents at their Christchurch home.

Statistics NZ data shows fewer ACC claims but union believes they are misleading.

Two investigations have been launched after a man was critically injured while he was working at Lion Nathan's manufacturing facility in Auckland.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after sustaining serious injuries working in an Auckland manufacturing facility.

A man has died this morning after he was run over by farm machinery on a North Canterbury property.

Skyla Frater's classmates are all busy at school making Father's Day gifts - but she doesn't have anyone to give hers to.

What did the workplace health and safety taskforce conclude about New Zealand businesses?

A man was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after he fell up to 9m through the roof of a factory at the Port of Tauranga last night.

Major health and safety reforms stemming from the Pike River disaster have been unveiled by Labour Minister Simon Bridges this morning.

The organisation representing most of the world's airlines is urging all countries to join up to international safety standards.

An experienced vineyard manager crushed to death in a machine used to take netting off vines had skipped a fall-back safety process, a coroner ruled today.

A shearing worker is thought to have severed an artery in his arm after a sheep kicked out a glass window and he cut himself.

Quad bike-related claims cost the Government nearly $12 million last year and, despite extended safety campaigns, riders continue to die.

The Accident Compensation Corporation's Earners and Work Accounts are now fully funded ACC Minister Judith Collins has told National Party members at their Northern Regional Conference today.

A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.

A 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.