Crime

A taxi driver was seriously assaulted in Palmerston North early on Saturday morning.

Police say anyone touching downed lines could be badly hurt or killed.

The massive fight follows a serious assault on Monday and an armed stand-off on Tuesday.

The 49-year-old is accused of contacting young people through social media, offering them gift vouchers in exchange for sex.

One of Jason Tuitama's victims was taken to hospital in critical condition and died.

The government has confirmed its plans to allow police to search gang members, their vehicles and homes at any time using court orders.

Helen Gregory, who was 79, was found dead in her Wellington home.

Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens should never have been a police officer and opportunities were missed to stop him, an inquiry has said.

The Perth teenager who sparked fears of an American-style school shooting in Australia has been sentenced to three years in juvenile detention.

John Salter strangled his wife in their retirement village apartment, in what he claimed was a murder-suicide pact.

Tiari Boon-Harris pleaded guilty to aiding a man accused of a fatal shooting on Auckland's Queen Street in August 2023.

Both men were well known to the rapper, who prosecutors said was killed in a business dispute over a lucrative deal to distribute cocaine in Baltimore.

The almost 12-hour ordeal ended in a 25-year-old man's arrest on Tuesday evening.

Satoshi Kirishima made his confession in January, telling police "I want to meet my death with my real name".

Tenants had been complaining for months about the behaviour of a person involved in a fatal attack at a unit in Mt Albert, Kāinga Ora says.

Police say the man, a known gang associate, tried to get away on foot after failing to stop when signalled.

The arrest follows an incident that saw part of the Taupō suburb of Hilltop cordoned off.

Two-year-old Arapera Fia was beaten to death by her mother's partner during Auckland's 2021 Covid lockdown.