Emergency Services

The two-vehicle crash on the corner of Te Ngae Road and Tennyson Drive was reported about 9.10pm.

An Auckland recycling plant that burnt down on the city's North Shore last night is calling on donations from the public to support staff and replace essential equipment.

Firefighters were left stranded high above a huge blaze at a recycling plant when their aerial firefighting truck broke down, a union says.

The incident happened shortly after 3.30pm in Kenmure, Fire and Emergency NZ says.

An under-prepared family is lucky to be safe after becoming lost in freezing conditions on Mt Taranaki.

One person has been taken to Tauranga Hospital after an accident involving gas in Mount Maunganui.

The incident was the latest in a series around the upper North Island on Thursday.

O'siah Prasad from Dunedin was described as a 'bright, loving, and adventurous little boy'.

Some Aucklanders said the severe weather alerts, sent several minutes of each other on Saturday, were too little too late, with flooding reported on Easter Friday night. Audio

A person has died at the scene of a two-vehicle crash in Mangakino this afternoon.

The same man is alleged to have broken a window for the fifth time in 12 months, police say.

A specialist lines crew was brought in as a helicopter winch rescue was unsuitable.

Auckland police are keeping an "open mind" over what happened at a Meadowbank bus stop.

Emergency services were called to a property on State Highway 5 in Wairakei shortly after 3.30pm on Saturday.

A new nationwide interactive map documents the last known location of people who have gone missing in the last 50 years.

Emergency services are searching for a man who fell into a fast-moving Waikato river this morning.

Nearly 80 infringement notices were issued and 21 vehicles were ordered off the road.

One person has died following a serious crash between a car and a cyclist in Haumoana this morning.

The fire broke out in a three-storey residential building.