Christchurch's so-called 'house of horrors' has been demolished following an arson attack this morning.

Police tried in vain to save the life of a 30-year-old woman at Ruakaka, south of Whangarei, after she was stabbed last night.

A man was reportedly attacked with a running chainsaw while sitting on a lawn of a Dunedin house yesterday afternoon.

Police are looking for two men in connection with an assault on a Dunedin woman.

A Dunedin woman suffered facial injuries after she was twice assaulted overnight.

Injured police officer Jeremy Snow is itching to get out of his hospital bed and back to his police work.

Constable Jeremy Snow didn't want to go to work the night that he was shot, his stepmother says.

The man found dead on the doorstep of a Gate Pa house yesterday morning was a talented, emerging Maori artist.

A hospital bedside hearing is being held today for the man accused of shooting a South Auckland police officer.

An 82-year-old woman was kidnapped by three young women and driven around in the back of her own car while her captors robbed her of more than $1500.