An Invercargill Police search and rescue (SAR) team has arrived in Te Anau to help with the recovery operation.

A 4-year-old boy has died after being hit by a light truck in rural South Auckland last night.

An experienced helicopter pilot is feared to have died in a crash yesterday near the Lake Te Anau starting point of the Milford Track.

A bar manager leapt for his life as a speeding car smashed into the spot where he had been standing outside a bar early yesterday.

A 65-year-old man has died after a tractor accident on the West Coast today.

The man killed in an early morning crash near Te Poi in Waikato on Wednesday was Grant Scott Gilmer of Tauranga, police say.

Fences capable of holding 2500 tonnes of rock will be installed at the Diana Falls slip next year where two Canadian tourists were swept to their deaths.

The husband of a woman who died when their car plunged into a creek fought to control the car as she became unresponsive at the wheel moments before the fatal crash.

Forensic scientists have made "some progress" towards identifying the object which struck and killed motorist Rutger Hale near Lake Hawea seven weeks ago, police say.

A 17-year-old boy killed this week on a Hastings orchard was a bright, ambitious kid with it "all in front of him" just days after finishing his final year at high school.

Drivers who crash on open roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays are more likely to be injured than at other times of the year.

A pensioner is recovering in hospital after crashing his motorbike.

Rapper Scribe has spoken of his family's relief that someone has been charged over the death of a "favourite" aunty.

Maryanne Butler-Finlay lost her husband Charles Finlay in a forestry accident in July. His was the seventh forestry-related death of the year and his family hoped he would be the last.

A driver has been thrown from his truck when it rolled south of Auckland.

A truck driver whose vehicle was in a collision with a freight train at Kumeu yesterday was in a critical but stable condition in Auckland City Hospital last night after surgery.

Union official: Engineer caught himself nodding at controls before deadly NYC train derailment.

The distraught father of a 9-year-old boy who drowned when their car rolled into a dredge pond told those who came to his aid "my babies, I couldn't get them out''.

Labour Minister Simon Bridges says prosecutions are "very likely" for forestry owners who have breached safety standards.

A train that derailed in New York City, killing four people, was hurtling at 82mph (132km/h) as it approached a 30mph (48km/h) zone.

An elderly couple 'blinded' by a lightning strike on their home believe they had a lucky escape - they'd hung up the phone moments before it burst into flames.

The introduction of a corporate manslaughter law to deal with work-related deaths in New Zealand is "unlikely", says Prime Minister John Key.

A train hurtled off the tracks in a New York suburb, killing at least four people, injuring 67 and coming perilously close to plunging into a freezing river.

Two teenagers struck by cars in separate incidents near Rotorua over the weekend remain in critical conditions in hospital.