Police officers who shot and Tasered a Porirua man acted with a "great deal of professionalism and a big dollop of bravery", their boss says.

One of four men convicted in one of Northland's biggest paua-poaching busts in recent history wants the High Court to declare a title issued by the Maori Land Court null and void.

Police are looking for a man who poached 272 undersized paua in Hicks Bay on the East Coast.

Retailers might be enjoying a post-Christmas spending bonanza, but an economist warns the sales boom can't last.

A mother accused of immersing her two-year-old son's hands in boiling water then failing to seek medical treatment for at least eight months will defend the charge.

A 48-year-old Porirua man caught with more than 90 times the legal limit of paua has been sentenced to 12 months in prison.

A mother is accused of immersing her 2-year-old son's hands in boiling water then failing to seek medical treatment for at least eight months.