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Emotional farewell for crash mother

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.

Crippled on OE: 'I couldn't move my legs'

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.

Bedside vigil for car-fire kids

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.

Search continues for hit and run

<s>UPDATED </s> Police are still searching for a car involved in a hit and run that has left a teenage boy in an Auckland hospital overnight.

Burns baby may lose fingertips

Second crash for Hertz?

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.

Dad dies in rider's sidecar crash

A dad was killed while riding in the sidecar of a speedway motorbike driven by his son during a practice run yesterday.

Teenager struck in hit and run

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

Victim's cousin: 'I asked her to stay'

Just hours before being fatally struck by a car on a dark highway, 18-year-old Jovaan Graham was urged by her cousin to stay with her in Rotorua.

Plane crash: Boaties told to stay back

Boaties have been asked to stay 500m from the site where the plane belonging to 2degrees chief executive Eric Hertz and his wife crashed while divers search for bodies.

Plane crash: Police to decide on underwater operation

Police will decide whether the wreck of the plane belonging to the 2degrees' chief executive Eric Hertz will be recovered from the seabed off the Waikato coast, the Navy says.

Elderly woman hit by a car in Bay of Plenty

Car crashes into bank in central Tauranga

A pregnant woman was among those hit when an elderly woman accidentally drove her car into a bank in central Tauranga this morning, witnesses say.

Two injured in four-way Welcome Bay crash

Two people were injured this morning in a four vehicle crash in Tauranga which blocked State Highway 2 near the southern end of Welcome Bay Rd.

Safer forests family's aim

The parents of a forestry worker who was crushed by a falling pine tree fought back tears yesterday as they joined a campaign to improve safety standards in the industry.

Cut drinking limit - cop's parting shot

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers should be lowered to prevent more unnecessary road deaths, says one of New Zealand's most experienced police officers.