Crime

Two people, including a 16-year-old, have been arrested following an aggravated robbery in Southland's Mataura.

An Auckland academic says the attempted murder of two schoolgirls by a man who claimed he was lashing out because he'd never had a girlfriend is the biggest incident in Aotearoa's extremist space…

An Auckland boat owner has been ordered to pay $16,000 after his boat hit and seriously injured a diver at high speed.

Five leaders of the Samoan Assembly of God Church in Manukau have been sentenced to community detention for defrauding the tax system out of nearly $170,000.

A Waikato council is considering banning most vehicles from certain rural and industrial roads at night to stop racers causing mayhem.

Israeli forces have raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin killing at least six Palestinians, including a Hamas member suspected of a recent shooting.

A former New York property developer has been sentenced on 41 charges relating to tax fraud totalling more than $1.5m.

The person who was shot was taken to hospital by police, and is now in a stable condition.

The charges came after police executed a series of search warrants across the North Island as part of Operation Gallium.

Repeated vandalisation of Nelson's public toilets has cost ratepayers at least $27,000 with toilet bowls being smashed and pipework cut through.

Janak Patel was killed outside the Rose Cottage Dairy in Sandringham last November, sparking widespread protest.

Simon Allan Bevers, 56, was found dead last March in his tent at an apple orchard.

Three people are in prison for breaching their community sentence conditions during Cyclone Gabrielle.

A man and a teenager who beat their farm colleague into unconsciousness, chained him to a car by his ankle and dragged him 1km along a gravel tanker track have been jailed for life.

Police have seized drugs, firearms, and cash during a series of planned raids on properties across the Far North.