Crime

Local police arrested four people on suspicion of "malicious communications".

The latest accusations bring the total number of offences laid against the 84-year-old to 44.

The seizure was part of a wider operation that uncovered drugs worth $9 million being imported into New Zealand.

The 27-year-old still faces a charge of second-degree murder in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Police reportedly tap into the Auckland-based Auror system 250,000 times a year, often outside big retailers and petrol stations.

Police have charged a Christchurch man with possession of an offensive weapon after a police shooting that left a woman dead in the suburb of Bryndwr last month.

A 23-year-old man has been charged after a match ended in a fight that left a player with a broken jaw.

The move follows revelations people with convictions for violence or sexual abuse were adopting children overseas.

The officer who extradited a woman accused of murdering her children and hiding their bodies in suitcases says she told him she did not do it.

Officials allege Yordanis Cobos-Martinez attacked and killed Chandra Nagamallaiah in front of his wife and son.

The potential deployment is part of Trump's broader effort to expand his anti-crime push nationwide.

Inland Revenue said Richard Jody Rapana and Marlanna Shirley Diana Harris received just over $115,000 they were not entitled to between 2019 and 2022.

A forensic accountant says the spending of a woman accused of murdering her children and hiding their bodies in suitcases skyrocketed after her husband's death.

A man was left with critical injuries and remains in hospital a month later, police say.

A former office worker at a property management firm siphoned more than $860,000 from the company to help pay her own rent.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he expects there would be an inquiry into the handling of the Tom Phillips case Audio

Kiwi police joined hundreds in Victoria searching caves, rivers and gorges for the armed fugitive.

After the death of a teenage girl, a judge told Jack Greer to speak at his former school about the dangers of street-racing.

Rees Management was fined for illegally selling recreationally caught crayfish and failing to keep records.