Emergency Services

The Waitotara Hotel has been gutted in a blaze fought by volunteer firefighters.

A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said water availability in the area is hampering the efforts of firefighters in South Taranaki.

A Kiwirail spokesperson says the trains are now up and running as normal.

Police received a report of a car crashing into a house on Riverside Drive in Merrilands about 9.15am.

Emergency services responded to two incidents on SH7 and SH1.

Police said a car collided with a pole on Carrington Rd on Monday morning.

Roughly 24 firefighters are at the scene on Grassways Avenue, and are asking the public to avoid the area.

Emergency services were called to the Northern Motorway south of Waitati shortly after 3.30am where the sole occupant of a car was found dead.

Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence Minister Karen Chhour made the announcement at Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.

Part of Auckland Airport has been evacuated, in response to an incident.

Four people have been injured in a crash between a campervan and a car in the Mackenzie District.

Twenty people have been killed in a fire at a nursing home in northern China, according to a state news agency.

A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said crews discovered a fire inside a second-floor apartment and that smoke had reached the stairwell.

Fire and Emergency said the fire did not spread to neighbouring properties and is not being treated as suspicious.

One person was injured.

A local resident said the conditions were rough near Red Beach this morning.

Thick black smoke can be seen pouring out of the industrial site in the suburb of Bromley and sweeping across parts of the city.