Three Mongrel Mob members were arrested in Hastings last night after one assaulted a woman and the other two stopped police from doing their job.

Two police officers ran for their lives when a routine callout resulted in a man allegedly chasing them with a samurai sword.

The two men arrested for attacking a police officer on the East Coast are facing more serious charges of threatening to kill him after appearing in Gisborne District Court today.

A Wairoa policeman attacked by two men in Mahia on Boxing Day is keen to get back to his job, Police Minister Judith Collins says.

At least two children were in a Northland house shot at during an attempted murder on Christmas Eve, police say.

An attack on a Hamilton police officer with a machete could have been a copycat of the machete attack on a Taihape officer, Howard Broad says.

A Northland police officer has been hit over the head with his own baton after being called out to deal with a drunken fight.

Two boys aged 14 and 16 have been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was attacked with a knife and a machete.

She is the Christmas angel who wanted to help another 9-year-old girl in suffering.

A Kiwi mum who witnessed her husband's murder at the hands of "greedy" family members in India says she is still traumatised.

A formal extradition request has been made to the Kenyan Government for a man accused of the alleged attempted murder of his estranged wife and the murder of her friend in Christchurch last year.

This is the face of the latest New Zealand child to die as a result of alleged abuse. Five-year-old Sahara Jayde Baker-Koro was found dead in her bed in Napier early on Tuesday.

A girl, 9, allegedly tortured and abused by her parents will spend Christmas with a new foster family.

A man accused of attacking a police officer was in 2005 being hailed as a success story in a school bullying project.

A nine-year-old with horrific injuries never wants to see her parents again, a court has heard.