Police are keen to speak any truckies who may have noticed something on SH2 early today.

Waiata Edwards was sleeping in a bassinet in a van while home renovations were being done.

The person was airlifted to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition.

Early reports suggest one car is upside down and on fire, and the other is in a ditch.

Store manager counts himself 'very, very lucky' to have escaped a machete attack.

One patient was airlifted to hospital after a crash in Waihī.

Debris has been strewn for about 50m all around the crash scene.

Fears for areas with high number of elderly as people switch city for bach.

Speculation about a gas leak, but police say the death remains unexplained at this stage.

Three crews attended the fire in Vesty Avenue.

Australian tourist fatally shot. Terrified partner ran for several kilometres for help.

Emergency services were called to the incident in the early hours of Friday morning.

Kiwis stranded near explosion: "Our anchor got stuck in the rocks at the time."

The woman was taken to Waikato Hospital last night but has since died of her injuries.

"Walking through the dining room was just chaos, there was stuff all over the place."

Twenty-six people died in one the deadliest weeks on our roads. These are their stories.

A neighbour has described the incident as "pretty graphic".

A motorcyclist died in a Hamilton crash

Staff allowed back into building after smoke traced to a faulty air conditioning unit.

Water started seeping, then pouring into the garage.

"Wear a lifejacket, even if you are standing on the rocks. Wear a lifejacket."

"At that sort of heart rate you are at a high risk of a heart attack."

The 73-year-old cyclist was just a few kilometres short of the finish line.

Jayden Braniff, 23, was the passenger in the vehicle.

As part of the investigation, police were searching a residential address in Hamilton.

One person has died in a two-vehicle crash this morning north of Karapiro.

A person is fighting for their life after a vehicle crash in Otorohanga, in the Waikato.

Three times as many people died over the long weekend as last year.

A diversion was in place down Raynes Rd and State Highway 21.

It's 10 years since the fiery explosion that ripped eight lives apart.