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Parents urged to 'be wary' of hot snacks

A tasty winter warmer is putting more and more Kiwi children in hospital with serious scalds and burns.

'I ran for my life'

A man escaped a moving wall of terror when a Subaru crashed through his garage while he was inside vacuuming his car.

Power worker injured in explosion

An experienced power line worker was last night fighting for his life after being flung from a live transformer in Auckland.

Selfless Sikh praised worldwide

"Anyone would have done the same." Harman Singh woke up yesterday to hundreds of messages praising his humanity.

Woman in critical condition after crash

Car crashes into pole in Auckland

A man is in a serious condition after a car struck a power pole in Remuera this afternoon.

'It wasn't about the turban'

"He didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy that he had no relation to."

Stroke of luck in garage car crash

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

'I heard a vehicle skidding, then a bang'

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

School to close for day to honour shot pupil

The school attended by a teenage boy who shot himself in a tragic hunting accident will close on Thursday as a mark of respect.

Hunting death boy was on his way to buy Mother's Day gift

Jamie Johnston never got the chance to give his mother Ginny her Mother's Day present after a duck hunting trip went horribly wrong.

Driver hysterical after child hurt

A male driver is said to have been hysterical after learning a child had been badly injured in a crash last night.

Young rugby players thrown from SUV

Two promising rugby players are fighting for their lives last night after they were thrown from a vehicle that crashed on a remote road after a party.

Warkworth motorcyclist killed named

Warkworth man Karl McCallion, 46, died in a crash on SH1 near Satellite Station Rd intersection about 9.15pm Saturday, police said.

Mother, son 'will alway be in our hearts'

Devastating triple fatality

A planned Mother's Day reunion has ended in tragedy for an Auckland family who lost three relatives in a horrific car crash.

Ten dead on NZ roads

The deaths of 10 people on New Zealand roads this weekend, including in a pair of triple-fatality crashes, have been lamented by police as a “preventable tragedy”.

Fiery crash kills three, injures seven

The Bay of Plenty crash took the weekend's road toll to seven after three other fatal crashes.