Emergency Services

Napier police are seeking more information about an alleged assault on three men in the city on Saturday 27 May.

One person has died following a crash in the Auckland suburb of East Tamaki Heights this morning.

A person has been rescued from a fire in a two-storey home in Auckland's Albany.

A tramper has been airlifted to hospital after they were found injured on the Whakanui Track in Lower Hutt on Sunday evening.

Mediawatch - A journalist who worked on the Grenfell fire story says media must pursue what went wrong at Loafers Lodge to prevent something worse happening elsewhere in future. Audio

Police have confirmed a total of five people died in the Loafers Lodge fire in Wellington.

The more-than-a-century-old former hat factory was gutted by fire just after 4pm on Thursday.

Pockets of smouldering fire remain but are under control at a seven-storey heritage building in Sydney that was destroyed by a major blaze.

Auckland Council is inspecting boarding houses at least three times less often than it should be.

The equipment malfunction in central Auckland this morning forced a firefighter to escape the ladder basket high in the air.

A police officer was justified in shooting a man who tried to stab him in a rural area near Invercargill, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled.

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, expressed her deep sadness over the incident.

Lamb was the dog handler of Gage which received a posthumous bravery award after being fatally shot by an offender 13 years ago.

Analysis - When a dairy caught fire at the end at the end of my street in April, a fire engine came from a station across the Hutt River in Seaview, rather than just down the road.

Fire and Emergency says it has yet to order big new ladder trucks and has yet to confirm when the bulk of smaller fire trucks will be delivered.

A man has been charged with manslaughter after a woman died and her son went missing when a boat capsized in Auckland's Manukau Harbour.

A police doctor who was the subject of multiple complaints of sexual assault was allowed to continue examining police recruits for nearly 15 years. Audio

A person seriously injured after being pinned between a car and a house in Wanaka has been flown to hospital.

The building director says tenants will get their bonds back, but he does not know when.