
Serious Gisborne crash leaves multiple injured, road closed
Motorists are being urged to avoid Centennial Marine Drive near Midway Beach.
Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
Speldhurst village's 720 residents fear near misses at their highway entrance.
Emergency services rushed to Roscommon Rd shortly before 10pm.
The loss of so much fruit could be devastating to the grower at peak picking season.
Twenty-five homes in Stokes Valley and one in Porirua have been evacuated.
A passing motorist captured a photo of the truck burning in the emergency lane.
Silt from Cyclone Gabrielle is being used to build up new bridge embankments.
Police say one person appears to have suffered moderate injuries in the 2.30pm crash.
Locals say feral cattle have roamed onto Whangārei Heads Rd for more than a decade.
The SH29 upgrade will ultimately create four lanes and is due for completion in 2027.
The cyclist was seen swerving and riding recklessly on SH16 near Patiki Rd.
The crash on State Highway 6 and Wakapuaka Rd happened about 2.40pm.
Eliza Stapley says many have not retested their knowledge for 50 years.
A resident says the community logs three to four near misses on the road every week.
Fire crews freed two people who were trapped in separate vehicles.
Rural Gisborne residents say “hundreds” of crater-sized potholes are causing vehicles to swerve across the centre line of Tiniroto Rd.
Iwi leader Willie Te Aho says two marae near Te Karaka will move to safer land.
Tow trucks had removed the vehicles but motorists still faced long delays.
OPINION: Each Kiwi uses about 1kg of quarry aggregate every hour to live and work.
Five injured, one critically, after a vehicle rolled on Auckland’s Northern Motorway in central Auckland, coming to rest upside down under the Wellington Street overbridge.
"The whole front of the vehicle was crushed," a driver at the scene said.
Skies across Northland were illuminated as Cyclone Vaianu approached.
Footage shows the ute spinning and debris scattering across SH1.
The crash happened about 7.30am on State Highway 1 near Hampden.
The two-vehicle accident happened between Bulls and Sanson at about 10.55am.
Cyclone Vaianu brought wind gusts up to 125km/h and waves reaching 11.4m.
Highest gust in an area where people live was 126km/h in Mahia, where power is now out.
Transport disruption is expected tomorrow in Auckland as severe weather hits the city.
The newly revamped area was part of a multimillion‑dollar Auckland Council project.
NZTA admits the 60km/h sign was displaced and will be fixed next week.