The crash happened around 6.25pm on State Highway 1 in the Rangitikei district.

Latest tool to warn of civil defence emergencies sends mobiles a messages.

MetService has issued severe weather warnings for the east coast of the Bay of Plenty

Senior Station Officer Chris Lind speaks from the scene of an apartment fire at Augustus Terrace in Parnell. / Video by Jason Oxenham

Footage was released of a British cop in the US, along with other officers, saving a woman from a burning car. / Grand Prairie Police

A food caravan's cooker exploded at the Leeston rugby club, burning a man inside.

The road worker was taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

South Island man has serious eye injury after firework was shot directly in his face.

He suffered serious injuries and has been taken to Middlemore Hospital.

Emergency services respond after a collision between a school bus and car in Queenstown. / James Allan

New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS) and National Rural Fire Authority commission an independent operational review of the Port Hills fires to learn from their response to the event.

Police say a truck has tipped over and rolled into a house in Ellerslie.

A woman is critical and a man seriously hurt after a car drove off a cliff this morning.

A witness says the fire is in a warehouse that appears to have been completely demolished.

A farmer has been taken to Waikato Hospital after being attacked by a bull.

Two people were trapped in their vehicle after a serious crash in Wellington.

A neighbour said she heard one gunshot before armed police arrived.

Police warn if kayakers had fallen in the water they could have been in "serious trouble".

Lynda Hodge's dream of becoming a paramedic has been dashed by a change of anaesthetic.

David Henderson and Harry Murdoch were with the 5-year-old boy in his last moments

The incident happened about 6pm at Mangatangi

Both lanes are blocked after a two-car crash near Taupo on State Highway 1.

A man was taken to Nelson Hospital in critical condition after a crash in Golden Downs.

A rush hour crash on a Wellington highway leaves long queues for those heading to work.

A bus has crashed into a house in the Wellington suburb of Newtown.

The six-year-old had climbed 10m up a vertical cliff face before getting stuck.

Six cows died in an accident in South Auckland early this morning.

The injured person was trapped following the crash, police say.

Eight fire crews battled the fire in an Auckland CBD apartment tonight.

Emma Warren, 8, was killed just eight months after her big brother died suddenly.