Police

Beijing has set up dozens of overseas police stations and "contact points" which it says are to help hold Chinese citizens living abroad accountable for crimes.

The family of three children missing for 10 months are fundraising for a reward to offer for information leading to their return.

A crash involving a car and a train has left one person dead in Matamata this morning.

Two police officers who faced a knife-wielding attacker in a Dunedin supermarket last year have been awarded for bravery.

Police are investigating three break-ins at stores across Tāmaki Makaurau overnight.

The police minister is facing criticism over his suggestion the law could be changed to allow officers to keep photographing people for looking out of place or suspicious. Audio

Police have released further footage of the man who attempted to kidnap a woman in Christchurch earlier this month.

Chris Hipkins is not ruling out a law change to support police in continuing to take photographs and fingerprints from young people - and he's told police he'll support them challenging a report…

Police have removed six protesters who blocked the southbound lane of the Wellington motorway in the Terrace tunnel, and traffic is flowing freely again.

Police have found the woman they were searching for in relation to a suspected arson in South Wairarapa yesterday morning.

Armed offender squad members are joining frontline police officers in Gisborne to help deal with a surge in gun crime.

Police are looking for a woman after two rural fires in South Wairarapa this morning - and people are advised not to approach her.

A North Island health network that has been targeted in a cyber attack says private patient information has now been publicly uploaded to the internet. Audio

Corrections is set to move 75 prisoners into Rimutaka Prison to relieve pressures elsewhere.