The crash has highlighted the danger of dirt bikes being used on city streets - and an alarming trend of riders taking young children for high-speed joyrides, almost always without helmets.

Judge Ema Aitken is appearing before a Judicial Conduct Panel in Auckland, accused of disrupting a function at Auckland's Northern Club in 2024.

The couple's lawyer argued that withholding the cash, found in 2021, would discourage others from reporting similar finds to police.

The incident is said to have happened during a navy operation in Fiji in 2023.

The 35-year-old is seeking leave to appeal his convictions and life sentence for the massacres at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in 2019.

A significant jump in the recreational use of nitrous oxide has sparked concern, with claims big canisters of the gas are being marketed directly to children.

A homicide investigation has been launched after the discovery of a woman's body at a worksite in Hawke's Bay last week.

A convoy is operating three times a day in both directions; that is Gisborne bound and Ōpōtiki bound.

All children and the driver are safe.

Police were called to a property on Fitzgerald Avenue at around 12:20pm on Monday, where a man was found in a critical condition, with injuries consistent with being stabbed.

The comments came as Wayne Brown again renewed calls for a bed levy tax, despite the government's opposition to the move.

Police were called to the address at 1.15am on Monday.

Lake Taupō's harbourmaster has issued a warning to a teenager in charge of a boat that caught fire just before Christmas.

RNZ earlier revealed Fr Rowan Donoghue admitted six charges including indecent assault on a boy aged 12-16.

The doctor apologised after being made aware the use of the tissue was against the patient's cultural and religious beliefs.