Police

A man has been arrested after two people earlier arrived at an Auckland hospital with serious gunshot wounds.

Waikato police have been granted special permissions allowed in periods of gang conflict, following the death of a woman after a brawl in Ngāruawāhia.

Emergency services at summer hot spots are preparing for an influx of rowdy visitors on New Year's Eve.

Police reported that the man was travelling on a mattress on the roof of a station wagon when he fell onto the road at Nuffield Avenue.

Two people died in a two-vehicle crash north of Mangaweka, bringing the holiday road toll to nine deaths.

The rider had accelerated to at least 200km/h near Ranfurly.

A hiker was forced to spend overnight and most of the following day in the bush on Boxing Day after he became separated from his group.

A youth has been arrested and is due to appear in Rotorua Youth Court, say police.

A man's body was found on Nuffield Avenue in Napier on Friday, police say.

Formal identification of the body, which was found near the mouth of the harbour, is still underway.

The death is being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing.

Police are investigating the circumstances of her death.

Coromandel police say they have carried out over 900 alcohol breath tests across 28 checkpoints yesterday that resulted in five drivers being processed for excess breath alcohol.

Two motorcyclists were critically injured in crashes in Auckland and the Whakatāne district.

Police are searching for those responsible after cars were rammed and on-lookers were sent running and screaming.

Police in Waikato offered more in reward money earlier this year than they have spent in their search for Tom Phillips and his children.

The cyclist suffered a broken leg and other injuries.

Emergency services were called to Nuffield Avenue in Marewa around 9pm Friday.

There are lengthy delays on a major road on the Coromandel Peninsula after a fatal crash.

Police say they have caught three men with $2700 of shoplifted loot, after a sticky fingered Boxing Day spree.