Emergency Services

The person died at the scene in a single-vehicle crash in Glendene.

One person was taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

Insurance brokers are predicting levies could increase by as much as 400 percent, IBANZ says.

Those who were passengers on the train and the victim's family are being offered support.

New aviation levies proposed by Fire and Emergency are unfair, a group representing the industry says.

The body of Quinn David McIntyre was found near the intersection of Sydney St and St Andrew St on Sunday morning.

The body of a man has been found near the corner of Sydney Street and St Andrew Street in Invercargill.

A section of State Highway 5 near Tapapa in the Bay of Plenty is closed after a crash.

The helicopter is reported to have been a home-built kitset model.

A local resident saw the blaze from his bedroom window and says the flames kept "getting bigger and bigger".

Portable biometric recording devices or scanners have been used by UK and US police forces for more than a decade.

WorkSafe has found shortcomings at Fire and Emergency over how two firefighters died in a landslide in Cyclone Gabrielle, but will not prosecute.

NEMA did not have enough trained staff when Cyclone Gabrielle hit - just one of a litany of failures a review has uncovered.

The hostel fire that killed five people a year ago today changed other residents' lives and prompted government rethinks.

For the past few years, Ohakea did not have enough trained fire and rescue staff to be on hand 24/7 should a jet need to land.