A rubbish contractor crushed by a truck yesterday is now in a stable condition.

A horrific explosion burning two teens was caused by a cigarette and petrol fumes.

Car crashes and breakdowns are causing delays in Auckland this morning.

An oil tanker has crashed on SH6, the Haast Pass Highway; Police say don't drive in area.

The death of a newborn baby boy is being treated as suspicious.

A fire at a building in downtown Auckland is now under control.

A popular snow groomer from Otago's Cardrona Alpine Resort has died in a fatal crash.

A pole and a car are blocking the motorway offramp in Silverdale.

A person has died after a house fire in Tauranga. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The person is being taken to Wellington Hospital and is breathing.

An ocean tanker, rescue helicopter and a tug boat were part of $15,000 rescue.

70 firefighters from 10 fire stations across Auckland battled the Henderson blaze.

Four fire crews are fighting the fire on Greerton Rd in Tauranga.

Weekend crash victim "had the biggest heart and was always the life of the party".

Emergency services are on the way.

Emergency services are at a crash in East Tamaki.

No one is believed to have been hurt in a "massive" Pukekohe house fire.

Fire at North Canterbury honey factory now under control.

Fire crews did not realise the man had died until after the fire was extinguished.

A house in Gore has been badly damaged in a fire.

Two cars were involved in the crash, which emergency services are en route to.

Road closed, one dead, multiple injured after car and campervan collide near Gore.

One person has been killed and six others injured in a crash near Te Kauwhata.

A truck and a car have crashed on the Pakuranga Highway bridge.

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A man has been seriously injured in a farming accident in Central Otago.

Man checks himself in to Wairarapa Hospital with stab wounds.

A man has been injured after he was crushed between two cars in Takapuna.

Injured man had been trapped under a tree on a farm on Mataraua Rd in Kaikohe.

Defence says aircraft had an engine fire indication while taxiing at the airbase.