Name suppression continues for a New Zealand Olympian who today pleaded not guilty to 12 charges, including rape.

The Australian mother of two little boys found dead in the bathtub of their home in Canada has been charged with their murder.

The Government is considering how to better support officers following a series of "barbaric" assaults.

Queensland police launched an intense search yesterday for the killer of an 8-year-old girl abducted from her home in Bundaberg.

Cracking down on insults commonly hurled at police is the first step to ending assaults on police officers, the union's president said today.

Police have charged three men after an assault on an officer at an Oamaru drink-driving checkpoint last night.

A man who disciplined his six-year-old daughter with a cricket bat when she would not stop coughing fails to get his jail term reduced.

A road rage incident may have been the precursor of a vicious murder in Sydney's inner suburbs last night.

Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop

Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop.

A Super 14 rugby player is before the courts over a carpark assault that left a man needing medical treatment.