Crime

The student was assaulted by another pupil at a rural Canterbury school.

The club's leading tryscorer has immersed himself in the community, after serving time in prison for a drug conviction.

A fourth person has been charged more than a year after a woman was found dead, stuffed in a black rubbish bag, in Gulf Harbour north of Auckland.

The death was initially classified as "unexplained", but was ungraded to homicide.

A homicide investigation has been launched after the discovery of a man's body at Horeke, north of Kaikohe.

The death of a young girl in Kaikohe on Wednesday is being investigated by police.

Jordan Taylor killed his mother Anita in 2023, on his 18th birthday.

"He was cold but otherwise unharmed," police say.

In 2023 Sarvjeet Sidhu and two others stabbed Singh about 40 times.

A man suffered multiple injuries - including burns to his face and chest, wounds to his legs after he was kidnapped and assaulted.

Police arrested two people and removed a firearm following a search in south Auckland.

Rangimaria Sellars had earlier pleaded guilty to the stabbing, which critically injured the driver.

A CCTV operator told police he saw a man on Paihia's main street take a gun out of his pants - but that's not what police found when they arrived.

Three violent but unrelated crimes have resulted in charges for three men.

Two Australians sentenced to three years in jail in NZ's largest corruption case involving a publicly listed company.

Police investigating the disappearance of a Russian stuntman near Lake Taupō in 2002 received new details from the public.

She says there was massive failing by the health system, which failed to keep the man and the public safe - twice.