Emergency Services

A man faces multiple charges for driving into two police cars as they responded to a family harm event in Central Otago yesterday.

One person has died following a two-vehicle crash on SH1, at Waiomio, in Northland earlier this evening.

Searchers looking for a diver who had not surfaced have recovered a body, at a Hawke's Bay beach.

Two people involved in a car crash off a cliff are so lucky they should "go and get a Lotto ticket this weekend", one of their rescuers says.

One person has died and another is seriously injured following a two vehicle crash in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty.

A man has died after being hit by a car in Palmerston North and three others were injured, and one person was killed in a crash in Buller.

Police are investigating a suspected homicide after a man died following a serious assault in the Lower Hutt suburb of Moera.

The country's top detective and architect of a controversial police interviewing technique has announced he is leaving the police force.

One person is dead and another in hospital following a crash near Matata in Bay of Plenty last night.

Firefighters are preparing for possible gales as they work to extinguish a bushfire near Queenstown.

Aucklanders are being asked to keep away from a list of maunga this Guy Fawkes to prevent devastating fires caused by fireworks.

Firefighters have lifted a ban on a big fire truck that keeps breaking down - the last time at a burning house.

An arrest has been made after a man died following what police describe as a hit and run in Henderson.

One person was killed after a vehicle hit a pedestrian on State Highway 3 at Turakina, south of Whanganui.

An ambulance service's new initiative aims to teach more people what to do when someone's having a heart attack.

Emergency services are working on a truck fire on Transmission Gully motorway, north of Wellington, and all but one lane is closed.

Emergency services are treating fires overnight in Auckland's CBD as suspicous.