Emergency Services

The proportion of young people turning up drunk in emergency departments dropped from one in three in 2013 to under one in five in 2022. Audio

A man who lived in a caravan on the property of an Auckland backpackers which caught fire is being turned away from retrieving any belongings.

Fireworks went off, a local says, before a blaze was reported near the Kaipara Coast Highway. Now a man has been charged with arson.

Three homes were evacuated due to a vegetation fire in north Canterbury.

The teens became stranded in the dark on rocks from the shore of Narrow Neck Beach.

The council had been working with the owner of the Parnell lodge that went up in flames to sort the problems, Auckland's deputy mayor says.

Emergency services were called to the blaze on Sunday afternoon.

A person in a single-car crash in Auckland on Sunday night died at the scene.

Fire and Emergency crews have contained a fire at a backpackers lodge in Parnell, Auckland that saw smoke cover much of the central city.

A fire investigator will attend the aftermath of a central Wellington overnight blaze.

Police abandoned 572,037 of the cases reported to them last year - almost 60 percent - with the number of reports up 50 percent since 2019.

The search for a 79-year-old Auckland woman in the Pureora Forest near Taupo has been suspended.

Dozens have people have been evacuated from buildings on a central Auckland street, including a film set, after a fire alarm.

One person is in a serious condition after being injured in Feilding, and police say they are investigating reports of an incident in the town.

Investigations into an aggravated robbery in Taupō and two aggravated robberies in Matamata have led to five arrests.

Armed officers went to the scene of the blaze, which is being treated as "unexplained".