Two people have been arrested for what Christchurch police say appears to be a racially motivated attack on a foreign student.

Nelson police are appealing for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station.

Nelson police are appealing to the public for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station early this morning.

A Nelson father critically injured his 37-year-old son when he shot him at close range at a family home in Tapawera before turning the gun on himself, police say.

As a frontline cop lay on the ground taking blow after blow to his head, unable to fight back during a vicious attack by a burglary suspect, he didn't think he would survive.

Charges have been laid against a trio who were hunting with a man when he shot a Wellington teacher at a Turangi campsite.

A prison officer who had known 'evil and nasty' career criminal John Gillies for 10 years sent an email to the Department of Corrections begging for him not to be released. Gillies will be released next month...

A group of 12- and 13-year-olds were left bloody, bruised and shaken after the unprovoked attack.

Jo Knowsley investigates the phenomenon of knife crime in New Zealand.

Police have found a weapon believed to be involved in the death of a man whose body was found on an Otago beach yesterday.