An eerie silence cut through a suburban Hamilton street moments after a man had been shot dead in a shootout in which he fired first at police.

Porirua men Tualauta Tusa, 22, and William Temo, 21, were the driver and passenger of the car that crashed into a Warspite Ave house on Sunday.

The Police Association 'totally rejects' government funding of Mongrel Mob-led rehab programme.

On a video chat 7400km away, Alia Eckford desperately tried to help her 10-year-old relative keep his gran alive, but she took her last breath in front of their eyes.

Car burst into flames after tyres spiked following pursuit.

The man, who has name suppression, has also been charged with making an objectionable publication.

National and ACT say it will divide the country. Labour says it’s not government policy. What is actually going on?

And now for a bit of fin in the news after a fishy week of huge goldfish discoveries, a record-breaking catch and a big aerial drop.

A fishing industry group is questioning why a foreign-flagged fishing vessel not connected to New Zealand is allowed to dock in the country.

Police are investigating whether the Mongols MC, an outlaw motorcycle club that describes itself as the “baddest and fastest-growing club in the world”, is looking to set up a chapter in Wellington.

Thieves drove Scotty Brown's own work van through the front door of his Christchurch bike shop and took gear valued at more than $25,000.

Melbourne will go into lockdown again, making recent arrivals to New Zealand thankful they managed to get home today.

Storm stars land in Melbourne to lockdown news and only get few short hours to get home and pack for Queensland relocation.

Quarantine-free travel from Victoria to New Zealand will stop until at least next week, as the Australian state is slammed back into a lockdown.

“We’ve got no choice,” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a five-day state-wide lockdown following the growing Covid-19 cluster in Melbourne.

Before Joshua Quinn was sedated he had embarked on a violent rampage which began with a misfiring crossbow and led to a face-slashing. And it still didn't end there.

A temporary holding pool is being arranged as a safety measure with sea swells of up to four metres and potential gale force winds expected on Friday.

MetService has issued its third ever red warning as a deluge is expected to batter parts of the West Coast from late Thursday.

A former police recruit and fitness trainer who admitted indecently assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a Timaru bar late last year, can now be named as Hugh James Slobbe.

Mainstream media 'won't be thrilled' by first grants from Public Interest Journalism Fund, media expert suggests.