Emergency Services

Police and paramedics were called to the Stanmore Road scene shortly after 9am on Wednesday.

Police have named the 11 year old cyclist killed by a car in Hawke's Bay as Emma Jane Kupa from Flaxmere.

A large fire at a waste station in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga has now been contained.

None of the 82 passengers on board or the train crew were injured.

Motorists are advised to avoid the area and expect delays.

Police say a truck rolled earlier, blocking lanes in both directions near Topuni.

The crash happened during the morning commute and involved several cars.

Authorities are warning the worst is yet to come with three-day rainfall totals set to top 1000 millimetres.

Emergency services were called to a Hamilton address overnight.

Before American Eagle Flight 5342 took to the air, figure skater Spencer Lane snapped a photo of the plane's wing stretched out over the tarmac toward the horizon. Audio

A person in their car at the site of the crash was also killed. Video

More detail will become clearer this week, but Health NZ is "not planning to expressly seek a single national provider".

The man whose body was found on Bethells beach, Abhishek Arora, was amongst a group of swimmers who got into difficulty in the water at Piha on Tuesday evening.

A twin-engine medevac jet crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia Friday night, causing a fiery explosion, according to authorities and video from the scene. Video

The burned, skeletal remains of an elderly artist who lived alone in a house bus in a remote corner of the South Island were found beside his favourite rocking chair.

The damage could have been much worse, were it not for the healthy state of the peatland - but it could still take years to recover.

A body found on a beach on Auckland's west coast is believed to be that of a missing swimmer.

A police officer warned a man not to walk on the highway in the dark less than two hours before he was hit by a utility vehicle and killed.