A toxic paint that sickened a woman and forced her family out of their home has been pulled from sale as officials investigate what is in the paint that made her ill.

Police are speaking to two 27-year-old men following an early morning police pursuit in Wellington.

A 17-year-old was knocked unconscious before being stabbed multiple times in the neck, arms and torso in a suspected gang incident in Porirua last night, police say.

A Porirua man who was shot and Tasered by police while allegedly attacking his pregnant partner has appeared in court and been granted name suppression.

The man shot and tasered by police in Porirua is in a stable condition, with two women also recovering from injuries after the incident early this morning.

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 witness has described how there was a screech of tyres and a "thud" as a car killed a 7-year-old boy running across a road just outside a Wellington school today.

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.