A motorcyclist was thrown into the air when he was hit by a 13-year-old boy fleeing police in a stolen car.

The sole survivor of a fiery crash which killed four people, including his son and partner, was getting over a recent tragedy but excited after getting engaged.

Waitomo crash survivor Kirsten Steinke is on her way home to Colorado after a month in hospital following the crash that killed her new husband.

An American woman who was critically injured in a car crash near Waitomo Caves has not been told her husband was killed in the accident.

A man has appeared in court this morning charged with causing the death of a Rotorua hunter.

Milk tankers stopped collecting milk in the Far North after a 14-year-old boy was killed when his bicycle collided with a Fonterra tanker.

A hit-and-run driver who nearly killed a professional New Zealand cyclist in the US has pleaded no contest and faces up to 10 years in jail.

The Mexican engineer whose wife and baby daughter fell 26 floors to their deaths is holding on to hope the tragedy could have been an accident.

A 20-strong surgical team has reattached the fingers of a Waikato meatworker, who was originally keen to have them chopped off completely.

Engineers will today pack explosives into huge boulders that have closed Milford Rd in Fiordland, as residents face their fifth day cut off.

Internal probe tears apart rule-breaking and risk-taking culture of service.

Two men found in a clandestine P lab on the outskirts of Whitianga on Saturday have been named.