A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle early this morning on State Highway 6 between Pelorus and Havelock, Marlborough.

Emergency services were busy in Auckland on Thursday night after a three car collision in Epsom and another car crashing through eight fences in New Lynn.

An ambulance has crashed in Dunedin with a patient on board after losing control on a slick surface

Two 13-year-old schoolgirls 'had a scrap'' at McDonald's Restaurant in George St yesterday afternoon, police said.

A 21-year-old woman was taken to hospital this evening following an incident with a stove in Mt Wellington.

A woman was flown to hospital after collapsing in an Auckland volcanic cone crater.

An emergency services call out to Te Puna Wai youth justice facility last night was due to a group of girls huffing aerosol cans, police have confirmed.

The death yesterday was just hours after a three-car accident on State Highway 5 which claimed one life and left two others in critical condition.

Detective Sargent Todd McDonald details police procedure on burglary cases. Video / Jason Oxenham

A chemical which can cause severe skin and eye irritation has been spilled in Moteuka.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

Two people are injured after their car clipped a milk tanker just south of Taranaki.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

A man was injured at the Dunedin District Court this morning.

Emergency services are scrambling to prevent polluted waste spilling into waterways after a tanker crashed in South Auckland.

A young woman is dead after the car she was driving crashed into a stream during a police pursuit in Rotorua.

St John Front line paramedics Jared Ranudo and Harrison Smythe talk about their lucky escape. They were hit by a speeding vehicle, which overturned their ambulance. After escaping from the wreckage, they attended to the person in the vehicle that crashed into them.

Two paramedics escaped from their upturned ambulance and rushed to treat a driver trapped in a wrecked car which had smashed into them.

A woman who was missing after a house fire in Castlecliff has been found alive. Police yesterday searched for a person who remained

Five people are suffering minor injuries after a bus with 39 people on board veered off the road near Central North Island's Tangiwai.

The woman's daughter (pictured) is on trial charged with manslaughter after the 76-year-old was discovered in bed on a tarpaulin, lying in her own excrement.

A 63-year-old Whitianga man was airlifted to Waikato Hospital yesterday after he fell through a roof.

Desert Rd down to one lane after crash.

A Castlecliff family was left shaken on Monday morning after a stolen car crashed through their front yard and into their neighbour's

A Housing NZ house has been destroyed by fire and a young woman taken to hospital suffering burns.

A person is dead after an accident in Hawkes Bay.

Name suppression lapses for woman accused in Dome Valley kidnapping case.

Emergency services were called to a "well involved" fire in a two-storey Penrose Street house at about 1pm today.

A Singapore Airlines flight to Milan has caught fire after returning to Changi Airport following an engine oil warning message.

The toddler who died in a Christchurch stadium carpark was pinned between a van and a low fence.