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Arthur's Pass, between Canterbury and the West Coast has reopened near the Waimakariri River bridge, after a crash.

A person has been killed after a glider crash at Lake Station airstrip, police say.

Firefighters have extinguished a fire at the Cloverlea Tavern in Palmerston North, but will be there overnight hunting out the last hotspots.

The 23-year-old's family are increasingly concerned for Cortney, who has not been seen since 7 February.

It's unclear which agencies would be able to step into the gap, The Mental Health Foundation says.

Mark Mitchell has had advice on updating the 111 emergency call system but won't commit to changes by the next election.

In one example, a woman was stabbed to death by a partner who overheard her making a 111 call.

A 52-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with last month's murder of Wellington woman Helen Gregory.

Three youths have been arrested after reports of cars in the central Auckland suburb being broken into with a crowbar.

Advocates say police's intentions to withdraw from family harm callouts will only cause more harm.

The person was believed to have been rafting on the river, police say.

Police investigating the suspicious disappearance of a Marlborough woman nearly five years ago are searching a rural property with a digger.

The body of a 35-year-old man was found some distance from his vehicle, which was undamaged.

Detectives were originally treating John Wirihana Isaac's death as a homicide, but now say that is not the case.

Tactics for enforcing the proposed ban will be announced in coming weeks, the minister of police says, but he won't be drawn on specifics as to what they may be. Audio

Members of the public found the body while hunting in dense bush in the Ōtaki Gorge area, police say.