Crime

All four arrests in Gisborne were for public display of gang insignia.

Pump-action shotgun, ammunition found during search of four gang-linked properties.

He is set to be released next month.

The police cordon has been lifted at the scene of a homicide in Napier where a teenage boy was killed, and another injured.

Refugees' residence visas will be cancelled if they pose a risk to national security, under new government legislation.

A resident heard loud music and noise hours before and then awoke to find police officers in her neighbourhood.

Police say they will boost patrols in Gisborne for a gang member's tangi, warning they won't tolerate intimidation or gang insignia in public.

Police investigating an aggravated robbery at a business in the small town of Marton are appealing for information and footage from the area.

Officers claim they seized more than 1000 bricks, constituting more than a million individual doses.

In a pre-Budget announcement, Customs Minister Casey Costello says the extra funding would boost staffing and improve technology.

Among people aged 12 to 18, it estimated almost 30 percent of New Zealand women experience sexual violence.

The judge said the courts were running out of patience.

A Wellington woman is recovering after she was forcefully flung to the ground while trying to stop someone stealing fuel.

Inland Revenue found the discrepancies in undeclared income tax and GST from the property sector.

The woman standing trial, who has name suppression, is accused of being a party to murder.

Police are still calling for witnesses despite making an arrest related to three separate incidents in Oamaru earlier this week.

Shuk Man Poon has pleaded guilty to killing Fuk-Fu Joseph Kwok and Mei Han Chong in Ellerslie.

But they are warning a police crackdown on their behaviour in the CBD will push them into neighbourhoods, where people "moan" about them.