Emergency Services

Police have reported another death after a second single-vehicle crash a little more than 12 hours after an earlier fatal crash was reported in Ngāhinapouri, southwest of Hamilton.

Three men have been rescued after being reported missing overnight while rafting on the Waikaia River near Piano Flat.

A search and rescue operation is underway.

Shipwrecked Festival is held in Te Ārai.

The bus was travelling between Cancun and Tabasco.

A 60-year-old Auckland man has been charged.

A man has died in a crash between a ute and a motorbike near Whanganui.

Fire and Emergency says a fire truck and a fire investigator are responding to a property fire in the East Auckland suburb of Cockle Bay.

A woman has died following a water incident at the Rakaia River mouth this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to Manurewa shortly before 11.30am on Saturday.

The owner of a motel that backs on to the town hall says there's nothing left of the building but a few walls. Audio

Police are now looking for witnesses after the death and another fatal crash on Auckland's motorways.

Police were called to the scene in central Auckland at about 9.45am.

A rescue search is underway after reports a man fell from a rock on Thursday night.

A man has been left with serious injuries after a road rage incident at a supermarket, and another has been arrested, police say.

Five people have been arrested following an incident at a property in the small settlement of Mākara, near Wellington.

Auckland's arterial Great South Road has been closed after power lines were brought down onto the road by a crash, police said.

Flames 10 metres high loomed above the Roxburgh town hall as firefighters sprayed water into it. The building is home to what is thought to be one of the world's oldest operating cinemas.

A pedestrian has died after a crash in Northland, south of the Bay of Islands, police say.

Marlborough volunteers joining Havelock Coastguard and police to continue the search.