Emergency Services

Some people are worried the money will be use by the government for military purposes.

Earthquake experts tell RNZ the important lessons our country may learn to prepare for potential quakes after Friday's disaster in Myanmar. Audio

Brockville Road in Dunedin is closed and motorists are advised to take an alternative route.

Photos have captured the devastation across the region after a powerful earthquake stuck Myanmar killing more than 140. Audio

Three people were hospitalised after the incident on Monday, including a university staff member.

Multiple people have been hurt after a car struck bystanders and a tree.

A 57-year-old driver has been charged with careless driving causing injury.

Two men have been jointly charged with murder after the death of a man in Wairarapa Saturday in a daylight shooting.

Two vehicles crashed on the Napier-Taupō Road near Rangitaiki School Road, Taupō District.

Police say there will be people who know more about what led to a shooting, the death of a man found in a vehicle, and three sections of SH2 being closed down in the Wellington Region.

A driver has died after a crash between two cars, which shut down part of Wellington's motorway overnight.

Hikers in the area are being asked to use alternative tracks.

Officers were called to Ranfurly Street at around 6.30am after reports of a gunshot.

The blaze's huge plumes of black smoke caught the attention of people on social media when the fire started shortly before 1.30 on a Stokes Valley hill in Lower Hutt.

Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash near Linton on Saturday night.

Abdul Nabizadah, who is originally from Afghanistan, has been named as the man that was killed in Miramar.

Police are responding to a crash involving a truck and a van in the town of Oxford.