Wairarapa Police are investigating a crash between a car and a bicycle on Western Lake Road, approximately 7km south of Featherston.

Police were called to the scene shortly before 5pm yesterday (Sunday 24 September).

A cyclist has died after being hit by a car in South Wairarapa this afternoon.

Police and ambulance were called to the scene on Western Lake Road just before 5pm.

The Serious Crash Unit is investigating.

Attributable to Detective Sergeant Dylan Ross:

A post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow (Monday) on the victim of the fatal house fire in Dunedin.

Police continue to investigate what happened at the Nutsford St address overnight on Friday.

It’s been a busy week both in the polling booths and on the weather front with two lows crossing the country and the 2017 election closing yesterday evening.

The search for missing Dunedin man Stephen Lowe will continue today.

A team of around 50, including SAR volunteers from across the region, will be assisting with today’s search, which is focused in the Catlins area.

New information to help Bay of Plenty locals to check on the state of their waterways is available online from today, World Rivers Day, on the Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) website.

Northland Police are seeking the public's assistance to locate the driver of a car that hit a pedestrian on State Highway 12 near Ohaeawai at around 11pm on Friday 22 September 2017.

The pedestrian, a 67-year-old woman, died at the scene.

Understanding and improving our waterways requires high quality information and communities can now access the latest on their rivers, lakes and streams thanks to fresh data available today.

State Highway 2 at Ngatea, in the Hauraki District, is currently blocked due to a serious crash reportedly involving two vehicles.

Emergency services were notified just after 9:35pm.

Glasses will be clinking tonight for two Lotto players from Tauranga and Porirua after each winning $500,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw.

The winning tickets were sold at New World Brookfield in Tauranga and Countdown Porirua in Porirua.