Crime

The call shows St John still believed only four or five people had been injured more than 20 minutes after first shooting began.

Police searching for items in connection to the death of Baby Ru in Lower Hutt now say they believe they were deliberately removed from the scene, which was 'cleaned' before officers arrived.

Four people, including two children, have been killed and three others injured following a stabbing in Queens, New York.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in relation to a violent home invasion in Fairfield, Hamilton on Saturday.

A member of the public helped police track down an alleged thief as he attempted to make a sneaky getaway.

The man on a tourist visa assaulted three women at Nelson's Tāhunanui Beach in September and October this year, reaching for their bodies and asking for a kiss after taking selfies with them.

Police are seeking information after a man was critically injured in an assault in Whanganui Saturday night.

The accused, aged 33, entered no plea to a charge of murder by stabbing or cutting.

She said prostitution was "natural for a girl's body" and told her daughter she should not be scared.

A major police investigation into abuse at Gloriavale has identified more than 100 potential victims over four decades of alleged offending.

A woman has been arrested and charged with murder as police investigate the death of a man in the Auckland suburb of Mt Wellington.

A murderer recently released from prison has failed to persuade authorities to let him enter Palmerston North ever again.

A year before Loafers Lodge fire victim Michael "Mike the Juggler" Wahrlich died, he was beaten for almost 20 minutes in his apartment by a man who wanted a cigarette.

A counter-terrorism expert says St John needed to have a plan and training for a terror attack because "you don't learn to dance the night of the ball".

A 33-year-old man appeared in Nelson District Court on a charge of murder this morning, where a woman told him "I'll wait for you when you get out, with a shotgun".

Thousands in cash and a kilo of meth have been seized, and four people have been arrested in Whanganui as part of Operation Arch.

All front-line police officers should be trained to enter a scene with an active armed offender, an American expert in counter-terrorism has told the mosque attack inquest.

Armed Offenders Squad members rushed to Christchurch Hospital's ED in the middle of the terror attack response after a false report by a St John staffer that a shooting was taking place there.