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Kidnapping: CCTV footage combed
Police are scouring CCTV footage in an effort to identify a man who snatched a 5-year-old girl from a Palmerston North street.
Police are scouring CCTV footage in an effort to identify a man who snatched a 5-year-old girl from a Palmerston North street.
The man who took a Palmerston North girl from the city's streets is likely lying low, shaking in his boots, says a top criminologist.
A 56-year-old woman who spent a traumatic 14 hours trapped inside a lift "drew pictures and wrote poems" to keep herself calm.
Parents are watching their children closely in Palmerston North this morning while the man who abducted a 5-year-old girl remains on the loose.
A 50-year-old woman who was assaulted in Hamilton earlier this week has died in hospital, sparking a homicide inquiry.
Three people have been pulled out of the water in Raglan, after their boat overturned on the bar.
A Rotorua woman has been winched out of the Whakarewarewa Forest after a serious mountain bike accident.
An 18-year-old female and a 47-year-old male have died following a head-on collision south of Whanganui.
A Bay of Plenty hotel was held up at gunpoint, with an armed man threatening drinkers and making off with the night's takings.
Napier's mayor has defended the city's much-criticised $700,000 "pier to nowhere".
Families invented 12 children for booking so they could have hut all to themselves.
A year ago Kauri went missing from his home in suburban Panmure; last week, she turned up at Te Hapara School in Gisborne.
One man is dead and another is in custody following a suspected homicide just north of Whangarei tonight.
Neighbours have described the moment a search turned to tragedy when a 1-year-old boy was found drowned last night.
Man accused of faking qualifications has been denied bail after being caught allegedly trying to flee the country.
Jaden Lee Stroobant charged with murdering and sexually violating Cun Tian in her home.
The motorcycle community is shocked and saddened after losing one of its members in a fatal crash involving a tourist driver in Hawkes Bay yesterday.
There are reports of a large shark swimming off the coast of Mount Maunganui today.
Animal activists have gathered at today's Warkworth Rodeo protesting the event as cruel entertainment.
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a man despite initial reports of a neighbour claiming she heard someone yelling "I killed him".
A teenager is in hospital with critical head injuries, after falling off a cliff on Auckland's North Shore.
A large fire in New Plymouth is thought to have been started by fireworks.
An unconscious man has been found in a critical condition in Auckland Domain overnight.
An attempt to firebomb Social Development Minister Anne Tolley's office to protest the TPP is likely to result in arrests, she says.
Mother's grief as man who ended her daughter's life sentenced to 250 hours community work.
Hundreds of locals and emergency service workers attended the funeral of Anne Talijancich, who died in a road crash on Saturday.
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