Police

The most significant challenge yet to the police's growing use of a private number-plate spotting network is being mounted.

Police urge vigilance in crowded places, warning extremist violence in NZ remains a "realistic possibility."

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

The man was seen bleeding from the left side of his face as bystanders outside Hobsonville Woolworths tended to him.

In one of the two incidents, the Armed Offenders Squad had to be called to an address.

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

A group of clergy members have chained themselves together outside the finance minister's office in Wellington, while five trespass notices have been served at another protest in Auckland.

It comes nearly two months after the retirement of Deputy Police Commissioner Tania Kura.

Police are looking into whether a man found with serious injuries at a Queenstown intersection last night was injured earlier and dumped at the intersection.

Enquiries into the crash are ongoing, police say.

The crash near Palmerston North happened shortly after 3am on Sunday.

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

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

A dedicated police team is examining items from the campsites used by Tom Phillips and his children over their four years on the run.

The current Police Infringement Processing System is more than 20 years old and can't keep up the flood of infringements.

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old in custody over the fatal shooting, "had become more political in recent years," the Utah Governor said.

A 21-year-old has been charged with reckless driving.

Authorities say anyone entering the former campsites, which are on private property, risks prosecution.

St John transported the injured - two in serious condition - to Middlemore Hospital.

The seven-officer patrol in Henderson aims to tackle local crime following thousands of reported victimisations.