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The worst-off patients have been flown to hospital.

Police said it will remain closed throughout the morning, and Wellington City Council warn that ferry access and egress will also be impacted.

Emergency services were called to the single-vehicle crash on Jones Road shortly after 7.45am.

At least four people have died in seperate crashes since Sunday evening.

Emergency services responded to a single-vehicle crash on Puhinui Road around 10.15pm last night.

The man allegedly broke the glass on an alarm and activated it, before pushing past airline staff at the international terminal.

Richard Chambers says it's only right he is in the city where Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming died on duty a year ago.

The police commissioner and his deputies will take part in frontline duties over the New Year period across the country.

The police commissioner and his deputies will take part in frontline duties over the New Year period across the country.

The jet skier went missing in the water off Port Waikato on Christmas Day with two others who were rescued.

A dairy big cream spill on Waikato roads has prompted warnings to motorists, and a flurry of puns.

A body has been found after the police helicopter joined a search for a person washed away by the surf.

Police are investigating after two people were injured at a business north of Hamilton.

The trio are due to appear in Youth Court in the coming days.

RNZ earlier revealed about 130 police staff were under investigation throughout the country after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded".

The Wellington men eventually found cell reception and were rescued, but police say it is a reminder of the importance of personal locator beacons.

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

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

The 38-year-old was driving home at 7.30am on Sunday morning when she was pulled over by police.

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