Crime

The youths are believed to have been involved in a significant number of offences across the lower North Island, police say.

A 17-year-old has been arrested, while the woman is in a serious condition.

An appeal hearing had been set down for last month, but that date had to be abandoned.

A clash resulted in the deaths of "eight soldiers" and "nine militants" in the Tirah area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an intelligence officer says.

A court has heard a group of men with chequered pasts are not making up claims they were abused as boys in a state care home.

An Auckland man accused of stealing $2000 in goods from a toy store and threatening supermarket staff with a knife is facing 17 charges.

The flights Tingjun Cao purchased from Christchurch to Auckland, and then to Shanghai totalled just over $700, a court has heard.

Leslie Topia Barrowcliffe was involved in creating and sharing a video covertly taken of a threesome he and his rugby mate had with a woman in a shower.

One of the fires caused extensive damage to a building in Woolston.

The vessel has been served with an abatement notice, which is an order to stop.

The veteran broadcaster's lawyer told the media that Jones would "assert his innocence" in court.

The offenders threw a hammer and a wrench during the pursuit, damaging a patrol car and hurting bystanders.

Police are appealing for the public's help to catch masked offenders they say assaulted a Lower Hutt dairy owner on Sunday night.

Corrections is spending 'a hell of a lot of money' on drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes that make 'marginal differences', critics say.