Police

All were in the North Island and involve people killed since 1 August - half were in Auckland.

The death will be referred to the coroner.

Christchurch Police have been made aware of a male making suspicious approaches to school girls and other young people.

Elizabeth Wielga, 67, checked out of her accommodation in Tongariro on 30 August but did not check in for her flight out of Auckland that day.

A man was killed and three wounded in Auckland's Grey Lynn, in what police say was a fight between two groups that started as broken windows and escalated.

Joanna Mai Sione-Lauaki was reported missing in August, and later found dead near Dargaville.

Police are calling for sightings of Elizabeth Wielga, who was last seen in the Tongariro area, while visiting from Australia.

Emergency services were called to a Barrington Street property on Wednesday afternoon - but police are not confirming a child died.

Search warrants were issued after Queenstown Lakes police noticed an increase in drug use in the area.

Police say they have closed a Papatoetoe road after a pedestrian was hit by a car.

Almost 40 people have been busted onselling guns, including former gun store employees - and many are going to gangs. Audio

Staff left the Auckland station in 2019 - but the bills have continued mounting up.

A man has been arrested after the death of a man in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga on Saturday night.

The period from June to September is commonly referred to as "seal silly season".

Mental health advocates are slamming the police's high use of tasers, saying "violence is being done to people who are not well".

Enquiries into the man's death was ongoing, while another man has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, police say.

Anyone who saw suspicious activity after Stephen Thorne's death in Blockhouse Bay is encouraged to contact police.