Police

Kory-Dean Wirihana checked in for a flight to Christchurch on Friday and cleared security but never boarded the plane.

A 39 year-old has been charged with two counts of presenting a firearm-like object and unlawfully getting into a motor vehicle.

Police were called to the scene on St Johns Road on Saturday about 10pm after reports of a person being assaulted by multiple people.

Police are appealing for information after a person was injured after being hit by a car in Wellington.

A new nationwide interactive map documents the last known location of people who have gone missing in the last 50 years.

The 75-year-old identified only as Heather, was last seen at her home on Māori Hill on Thursday.

One person has died following a serious crash between a car and a cyclist in Haumoana this morning.

Police and whānau are urgently looking for a man who vanished from Auckland Airport after checking in for a flight and clearing security but never boarding his plane.

The 75-year-old was last seen at her home in Maori Hill on Thursday.

The 19-year-old had been banging his head backward against the cell wall.

With her colleagues still several minutes away, police said the lone officer was approached by an "aggressive person".

Police have been speaking with a 50-year-old man who will appear in the Pukekohe District Court, charged with male assaults female.

Northland Police are investigating after a man was found dead in a carpark in Kawakawa on Sunday morning.

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Part of Auckland Airport has been evacuated, in response to an incident.

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Members of the public reported machetes and possibly a shotgun were involved in the altercation but that has not been confirmed.

Police are investigating after being alerted to footage of a bus driving in the wrong lane into oncoming traffic in Wellington.

The police watchdog says police breached policy in following the vehicle after it fled, and in using road spikes without informing others.

Six young people absconded from the community remand homes in two separate, unrelated incidents on 8 April.