Emergency Services

One person has been taken to hospital with moderate injuries while others were treated at the scene.

Police are appealing for the public's help to catch masked offenders they say assaulted a Lower Hutt dairy owner on Sunday night.

The man fell into the Manawatū river while walking his dog in Ahimate Park on Saturday.

Power lines were cut down and cars were towed to get to the truck back on the street.

Police said the accident took place at Alan Avenue, Henderson at around 3.30pm.

Police warned their minister that ditching an extremist alert system risked leaving them and security agencies unable to prevent a terrorist act. Audio

Meanwhile, sewage has been discharged into Wellington's waterways after heavy rain overnight.

Police are asking drivers in Wellington to avoid the Paekakariki off-ramp area, on State Highway 1, Transmission Gully, after a serious crash.

People were seen running away from the house a short time beforehand, police say.

Police have confirmed three people died after the incident at a railway crossing in Peachgrove Road in the early hours.

With many parts of New Zealand warm and very dry, fires can take hold and spread quickly, fire fighters say.

Auckland's Southern Motorway has reopened after a serious crash on Saturday near the suburb of Conifer Grove in Manukau.

The rescue at Bethells Beach was "textbook", but could easily have turned to tragedy, lifeguard says.

Dozens of homes in Ventura County were set alight in a sweeping wildfire that burned through thousands of acres of land in a matter of hours.

A man involved in a crash in an Auckland mall carpark has died, police say.

While the quake wasn't real, the scenario was very much so.

Fire and Emergency was called to a property in Waingawa just after 11.30pm on Thursday.

A person being taken to the hospital in an ambulance had what appeared to be a gun in their bag, police say.

A fire at a funeral home in Greymouth has been put out.