Multiple helicopters and emergency services vehicles are at the scene of a serious bus v car crash. One person is dead and 20 injured after a serious crash involving a tour bus near Queenstown.

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The King has been pleased, on the celebration of the New Year, to make the following appointments to The New Zealand Order of Merit: Mrs Julie Clare Chapman, of Auckland. For services to children and ...

Federal funding for the second stage of the redevelopment at the West Coat District Hospital has been secured just as the ...

Hato Hone St John says it has treated 20 people after a crash that's killed one and critically injured others near the Devil's Staircase this afternoon.

Emergency services are responding a crash involving a bus and a car on State Highway 6 between Queenstown and Kingston. The crash was reported shortly after 4pm on the Devil's Staircase near the ...

Police are warning people to drive carefully this holiday season after four people have died on the roads in the past 24 hours.

Emergency services are responding to a serious crash that has blocked State Highway 10 at Waipapa in the Far North. Police were alerted to the crash, between Pungaere and Kapiro roads, about 4.10pm.

A 23-year-old Queenstown woman and her 32-year-old passenger ... Constable Robin Hutton, of Milton, said emergency services were called to the collision on State Highway 1 just north of Milton about 4 ...

People trapped, highway blocked in state’s north December 30 ... a deliberately lit fire which destroyed a car and damaged a ...