Emergency Services

One of two heavy aerial firetrucks needed at a central skyscraper fire was stalled at a road closure en route from Hamilton.

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Sam Johns was about to tuck into a morning coffee before the rescue.

One person is dead after a crash on State Highway 12 in Northland.

Kindling stored near a log burner in Wellington spontaneously combusted overnight.

Unprepared people are venturing deeper into back country, lured by influencers and websites.

Nineteen others were injured, after the ship hit the landmark, the New York mayor said.

Two people have died in separate crashes in Wairoa and Waipawa early on Sunday morning.

Four crews were engaged at the peak of the fire.

A person has died in a fatal car crash in Hawke's Bay.

Enquiries are ongoing to locate a second suspect.

Firefighters have extinguished a scrub fire that had been burning near Wairoa's landfill since Thursday afternoon.

Two separate plane crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019.

Traffic is being diverted following the incident, which caused serious injuries.

Police have been contacted for comment.

The blaze broke out in two hay sheds housing 214,000 bales near Ashburton shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

Fire crews south of Ashburton have been battling a large rural fire since last night.

Auckland's Britomart train station has reopened after a fire alarm fault on Thursday morning.

Two weeks after flooding and slips hit Banks Peninsula, families remain cut off, businesses are closed, and locals are desperate to return to normal life. Audio

RNZ understands the plane's nose wheel failed as it was landing at Whangārei Airport, but the pilot was uninjured.