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A tractor has gone up in flames after catching fire while driving up Three Mile Hill Road.

Seven people have been injured in a five-vehicle crash on State Highway 8 between Lake Pukaki and Tekapo.

A person has died after reportedly ending up under their own vehicle on a Blenheim street. 

What do you think of the campaign to promote the council’s plans for the next year? Send your views in 200 words or less to daniel.alvey@starmedia.kiwi. Image: Supplied "Together we decided" - that is the catchphrase of a Selwyn District Council campaign to tell people how their rates will be spent.

A person has died after reportedly ending up under their own vehicle in suburban Blenheim. 

Photo: ECan By Nick James of RNZ "No options are off the table" to get the National Ticketing Solution back on track, the Transport Minister says.

Erica Stanford, left, and Jan Tinetti Photo: RNZ By Jo Moir of RNZ

File photo Australians are becoming more comfortable identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and experts are likening it to the sexual revolution of previous decades. 

Armed police near St Patrick's School in Invercargill. Photo: Toni McDonald Armed police have been seen in the streets of Invercargill after a person was seen holding an alleged firearm in the Heidelberg area.

A tractor has gone up in flames after catching fire while driving up Three Mile Hill Road.

Israeli military vehicles manoeuvre amidst the rubble in Gaza. Photo: Reuters Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

Seven people have been injured in a crash involving at least five vehicles on Tekapo-Twizel Rd (SH8) this morning.

The butt-slide and the pole-grab were among the methods hastily employed as Dunedin walkers went skittering down steep ice-covered footpaths this morning.

The Census has been taken in the same format for more than 70 years, but those days are over. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH By Kate Newtown of RNZ

Otago's Bella James has earned White Ferns central contract. Photo: Peter McIntosh Otago opener Bella James and Auckland left-arm seamer Bree Illing have earned their maiden White Ferns central contracts for the 2025-26 season.

Gemma Ferregel and her 10-year-old son, Ryder, drowned after a boat capsized in Manukau Harbour; Ryder’s body was never recovered. Composite image / NZME / Supplied Ten-year-old Ryder Ferregel was wearing a lifejacket when he went out on an ill-fated scalloping trip – but it was ill-fitting and riding up, so he was allowed to take it off.

3 car pile up Inexperienced winter drivers hit the skids and didn't realise the plunge pool at the end was empty.