A mum was driving with her aunt and baby son when she saw children standing on a bridge. The next moment, there was a "massive bang".

The blaze ignited from a power board at the bottom of the bed, then spread quickly throughout the flat, fire service says.

A family who have spent over 10 years searching for a missing plane in the Canterbury High Country are seeking help from mountaineers to get into the high terrain.

After having photo-taking tourists block their driveway multiple times, Shaan and Jessica Caskey decided to turn lemons into lemonade.

Bianca Hawea was greeted by a wall of flames when she went to investigate cracking noises at the back of her house.

Fifteen-year-old Rocco Conaghan drew on his first aid training to breathe life back into a young girl found floating face down in a pool.

Hamilton District Court was locked down after a managed isolation worker displaying Covid-19 symptoms reportedly showed up there.

Fourteen-year-old Brianna has been missing from her Christchurch home since December 19.

A West Coast miner's missing gold dredge has been spotted several hundred kilometres from its normal site by oil rig workers off the coast of Taranaki.

Michael Joseph Graham was set to appear in a Christchurch court on Wednesday. Instead, his alleged killer was in the court dock.

A car on fire temporarily blocked both lanes on a state highway north of Wellington.

Four water deaths in two days with a 4-year-old girl and 18-year-old man among the drowning victims.

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Fire crews have extinguished house in South Taranaki, which was up in flames when they arrived.

Kirill Koninin died on Christmas Eve after he fell off his BMX at a skatepark in Auckland.

A watchdog group says New Plymouth's Brooklands and Pukekura parks are paying a heavy price for their popularity.

Residents in Christchurch’s southwest are being asked to keep conserving water but wet weather has delayed widespread restrictions.

Self-harm incidents at Invercargill Prison have increased since mid-2019 but Corrections say a considerable number of incidents recorded relate to one person.

A shearing world record attempt in Gore will be judged from a bus company office in New South Wales.

Among the 13,000 partygoers there was little evidence of spiked drugs, two noise complaints and a handful of arrests at Nelson's biggest music festival.