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House destroyed in suspicious fire

Police would like to speak to two young men who stopped to assist as they were driving past the house and saw flames.

New ambulances to deal with heavier patients

St John has begun rolling out a new generation of ambulances equipped with stretchers that can carry heavier patients.

'A woman died and you want a smoke'

CONTENT WARNING: It's not just families and friends of victims who are affected, Suicide can take a toll on the people on the front line as well.

Watch: 150 piglets saved by firefighters in Russia

A video posted by the Russian Emergency Ministry captures firefighters saving about 150 pigs and piglets from a barn fire in a Siberian village.

10yo's death 'rocked us to our core'

Friends of the youngest of four people killed when a man drove into a crowd in Melbourne have spoken out, saying "we all feel helpless and hopeless at times like this".

Emergency services heading to crash site

Emergency services are making their way to an crash in the Dome Forest near Warkworth this afternoon.

One injured in early morning caravan fire

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

Three injured in Otaki crash

Three people are injured after a pile-up north of Wellington.

Hospitals readying for doctors' walk-out

District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.

Two car crash in Auckland

A man has been helped from his car after a two vehicle crash in Manurewa, Auckland.

Car flips in Ashhurst

Emergency services have freed one person after a car flipped onto its roof in Ashhurst, near Palmerston North. A police spokeswoman

Three dead adds to holiday road carnage

Three people have died on New Zealand roads so far this weekend, adding to the summer holiday road carnage.

St John ending bargaining with staff - union

First Union says St John is seeking to finish its bargaining without finalising a collective agreement for employees.

Teen found unconscious in water at Whananaki

Emergency services are responding to reports of a person found unconscious in water in Northland.

Road clear after Dome Valley crash

Hundreds of litres of diesel spilled from a truck's fuel tank in a Dome Valley crash this morning.

Two arrests after car crashes into house

Police have arrested two people who tried to flee after they crashed their car into a house early this morning.

Ambos' pay deducted for ditching uniforms

St John Ambulance officers who ditch their uniforms as part of ongoing strike action will have their pay docked by 10 per cent.

Pedestrian struck and killed a foreigner

A pedestrian has died after he was struck by a vehicle in Central Otago this evening.