Emergency Services

Nineteen others were injured, after the ship hit the landmark, the New York mayor said.

Two people have died in separate crashes in Wairoa and Waipawa early on Sunday morning.

Four crews were engaged at the peak of the fire.

A person has died in a fatal car crash in Hawke's Bay.

Unprepared people are venturing deeper into back country, lured by influencers and websites.

Enquiries are ongoing to locate a second suspect.

Firefighters have extinguished a scrub fire that had been burning near Wairoa's landfill since Thursday afternoon.

Two separate plane crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019.

Traffic is being diverted following the incident, which caused serious injuries.

Police have been contacted for comment.

The blaze broke out in two hay sheds housing 214,000 bales near Ashburton shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

Fire crews south of Ashburton have been battling a large rural fire since last night.

Auckland's Britomart train station has reopened after a fire alarm fault on Thursday morning.

Two weeks after flooding and slips hit Banks Peninsula, families remain cut off, businesses are closed, and locals are desperate to return to normal life. Audio

RNZ understands the plane's nose wheel failed as it was landing at Whangārei Airport, but the pilot was uninjured.

Part of State Highway 1 through Northland has been blocked after a crash between a truck and car.

One person is dead and three have been injured after an ATV rolled in rural Waikato this afternoon.

Police investigating an aggravated robbery at a business in the small town of Marton are appealing for information and footage from the area.

Eli Sweeting was overdue from a day trip to climb Mitre Peak a week ago.