Emergency Services

Firefighters will remain at the scene of the fire in Hastings overnight.

Omarama-Lindis Pass Road has been shut since late this morning following a crash north of the Waitaki town of Omarama.

Crews were already working long hours.

A fire investigator has been alerted.

He was taken to Taranaki Base Hospital in a moderate condition.

Motorists were being asked to avoid the intersection of Dominion and Balmoral Roads in Auckland's Mount Eden.

The manhunt for Mitchell Cole and now a second man continues, after Cole's father and stepmother were killed in a double homicide.

A search is underway to find the missing person.

Police are investigating the fire after it left one person hospitalised.

A 20-year-old man has been named by police as the person who died, after his car collided with a truck in South Auckland.

Police continue to investigate a stabbing in a central Wellington bar last week.

Emergency Services are working at the scene of a fiery crash, and police warn it has closed State Highway One lanes near Hampton Downs.

Police are investigating a sudden death after a person was pulled from the water of the geothermal area.

Maritime NZ's latest annual report found in the 2024 to 2025 financial year there were 19 fatal recreational boating accidents.

The route is shut near Mount View Road in southern Hamilton.

Five people have been injured, and drivers are being told to avoid the area and expect delays.

State Highway 35 was blocked and motorists were advised to find alternative routes.

A crash between a minivan and a car has seen 12 people taken to a number of hospitals in the North Island.

Trouble getting a chopper to help a girl trapped on a cliff face was not an isolated incident, the firefighters union says. Audio

Items of climbing equipment were found within a known icefall hazard zone on the upper Linda Glacier.