Emergency Services

Sources have told RNZ that the stabbing may have been linked to a club event in the central city.

The official Vietnam News Agency reported that all the tourists were Vietnamese, including several children.

Emergency services were called to the single vehicle crash on SH6 at Okaramio in which one person died.

Seven people were critically injured when a vehicle drove into a crowd outside a nightclub, the LA Fire Department says.

Police are searching for a missing man who was travelling to Napier from Lower Hutt.

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash in Matakana, north of Auckland.

The road is expected to be closed for some time, police say.

Emergency services received reports of a collision between a vehicle and a herd of cows on Napier Road around 8.30pm.

One of the vehicles was a stolen Toyota Aqua being tracked by a Police Eagle helicopter before it crashed near Wainui.

FENZ says 21 fire trucks responded to the blaze which was put out just after 10pm.

Motorists are advised to stay clear of the area and expect delays.

The two-vehicle crash in the Horowhenua District happened at around 4.15pm.

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to in relation to a fire that significantly damaged St Mary's Church in Auckland.

A police spokesperson says only one car was involved.

The massive blaze on Mansfield Street broke just before midnight.

A huge fire has torn through a commercial building in Iraq's eastern city of Kut, killing dozens of people. Audio

St Bernard's College principal said about half a dozen of his students were on the platform, and two saw what happened.

They died when the car they were in left a notorious road and landed in a nearby creek. Audio