If you’ve heard the bagpipes ringing out across Wellington recently, you’re not mistaken.The capital has just hosted the biggest piping and drumming summer school in the Southern Hemisphere.About 130 pipers and drummers from around the country as well as Australia and Canada have been in Wellington for an intense week…

One person has died following a serious crash near Palmerston North this afternoon.Emergency services were alerted to the two-vehicle crash on Colyton Rd, Bunnythorpe at around 2.55pm.St John said it responded with one ambulance and one rapid response unit.”Our crews assessed and treated two patients in a moderate condition who…

Fire and Emergency New Zealand says a vegetation fire which broke out in Kūaotunu on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday afternoon is now under control, but not yet contained. Firefighters were called to the scene on Black Jack Rd shortly before 4pm Saturday. Earlier, FENZ Incident Controller Shane Bromley said three…

Police have confirmed that young people were involved in a fatal fall at a cliff on the Coromandel Peninsula last night where one person died and a second was rescued.Emergency services responded to the incident, which occurred at what 1News understands to be the northwest end of Hahei Beach, at…

Concert-goers have seen a spate of concerts and festivals being cancelled or changed around the country in the last few months.Late last year it was confirmed Bay Dreams, once the country’s biggest music festival, will not go ahead in 2025.Last year summer music festival Nest Fest was also cancelled after…

One person has died and four others have been injured after a crash on State Highway 2 near Wairoa this morning.Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred west of the town at around 11.15am.”Four other people in the car were injured and transported to hospital,” a police spokesperson said. St John…

Three helicopters are responding to a crash that has closed a section of State Highway 2, near Wairoa this morning.Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred west of the town at around 11.15am.”There are several people and serious injury involved,” a police spokesperson said. St John said it sent three helicopters,…

Big swells in the Cook Strait whipped up by a southerly front have cancelled two ferry sailings today.Interislander have cancelled the Aratere crossing from Wellington at 4pm today and the return trip from Picton at 8.50pm.Both sailings coincided with the “worst of the weather”, the website said.All passengers affected had…

Big swells have cancelled some ferry services across the Cook Strait.  Sea conditions were expected to deteriorate as a southerly front causes waves, sparking cancellations during the worst of the weather. The Interislander Aratere sailing from Wellington at 4pm has been cancelled, along with the 8.50pm service from Picton. In…

Police divers have recovered the body of a man who failed to surface while swimming in the Waikato River on Friday.Emergency services were called to reports a swimmer had failed to surface at Jones Landing on Lake Arapuni around 6.45pm. “Later that night the man was located under the water…