Two men have been injured in motocross incidents near Nelson.

A top police officer is calling for unlicensed drivers to be banned from buying vehicles after a horror motorcycle death last week.

Five years after the Mangatepopo canyoning disaster, some families have been inspired to give while others remain angry at the lack of accountability.

A prison van that collided with a crane on State Highway 2 is blocking traffic near Katikati.

A Federated Farmers leader has called on a coroner to look into rural suicides instead of concentrating on quad bike deaths.

A teenager and a 20-year-old died in an after-party crash caused by the unlicensed driver reaching 145km/h while racing his overloaded vehicle, a coroner has found.

A man's been taken to Wellington Hospital's emergency department after seriously injuring his leg while felling a tree.

A student pilot was lucky to walk away from an emergency landing on an East Cape beach.

Rugby player Chris Eaton paid an emotional tribute to his wife Hannah at her funeral in Napier, saying words could not describe the love he had for her.

Alicia Kissick was like most young Kiwis heading off on their OE - full of dreams, aspirations and excitement. Then she fractured two vertebrae in her spine.

The family of two children who were severely burned in a car fire in Gisborne last week are maintaining a bedside vigil as the pair continue to fight for their lives in hospital.

The plane that crashed off the coast of Kawhia last Saturday had undergone extensive repairs for damage when it ran off the end of an airstrip a year ago.

A teenage boy has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a hit and run in Auckland this evening.

A body has been recovered from the crashed plane of 2degrees boss Eric Hertz and one of the Navy divers has been injured while working on the recovery operation.

A hero first aider has described the moments he thought a three-year-girl had died after she was pulled from a horrific car fire in Gisborne.

A man has been seriously injured after falling off the back of a ute in the Tasman region early this morning.

There has been a three-car crash north of Wellington this morning, resulting in the death of a cow.

Two pre-schoolers who were trapped in a burning car in Gisborne remain hospitalised in a serious condition.

Family and friends of the mother whose toddlers were badly burnt in a car fire after being left alone have defended her actions.