Emergency Services

The body of a kayaker who went missing yesterday has been found in Lake Rotorua.

People are being allowed to return to their businesses after an ammonia leak at a cold-storage company in Mt Maunganui this afternoon.

Tourists from Britain and the United States are being treated at several North Island hospitals after their bus crashed in Tongariro Forest Park.

A man has been charged with arson following a fire at Kelly's Bay in the Kaipara Harbour.

A supermarket north of Auckland has been evacuated after a chemical spill.

Surf lifeguards at some of the North Island's most popular beaches are increasingly being called out to other emergencies, prompting calls for greater support from local and central government.

Paramedics gave the boy anaesthetic and cut him free, after he was impaled on a metal fencepost.

A woman found stranded on Browns Island while a major fire burned had lit fires to get attention, police say. Video, Audio

Two people have been killed in two separate road crashes in eastern Bay of Plenty overnight.

A thousand paramedics will work in mufti over the next six days in protest at what they say is underfunding and an increased workload.

One person has died after a car crash near Matamata in Waikato.

Switzerland is easing an alcohol ban for volunteer firefighters, saying it had led to staffing shortages during crises.

Three adults and five children were lucky to escape with their lives when their Auckland house went up in flames, the fire service says.

Drivers are being warned of delays after a three-car crash blocked State Highway One in both directions on the Kapiti Coast.

More than 30 firefighters have doused a blaze that closed part of a Tasman district highway.

An Oamaru man is in hospital after being accidentally shot in the head with a fishing bait launcher.