New Zealand

Current and former rail workers will join the local community on Friday, Aug. 4, to celebrate the centenary of the Ōtira Tunnel, which has linked the West Coast to the rest of the South Island for the past 100 years.

New Zealand Police said a young person has died after being struck by a train in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga this afternoon.

In the early morning hours of March 23, a crew loaded Christchurch tram No. 178 onto a flatbed truck.