Fighting for a better future
In a dark basement below the main stage of Kawerau's town hall, a bunch of teenagers are on punching bags.
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Voice that could launch a thousand promos
It began when a US news reporter spotted a homeless man by the side of the road with a sign that was a little different.
Concern over youngsters drinking to excess
Young people, particularly girls, drinking excessively and putting themselves at risk are concerning police.
Man has ear cut off in drunken fight
A man's ear had to be re-attached after a drunken fight in Hastings last night.
<i>Noelle McCarthy:</i> So many reasons for social inequity, so few questioning it
Nobody wins unless everybody wins. It's a phrase on a post it that's been stuck to my computer monitor for weeks.
Get a sober driver for New Year's Eve, urge police
Police are urging people to stay off the roads if they're drinking tonight.
More charges laid against cop bashing accused
The two men arrested for attacking a police officer on the East Coast are facing more serious charges of threatening to kill him after appearing in Gisborne District Court today.
Police warn over underage sex, drug use
Police have told parents to keep track of their children after finding a girl, 14, having allegedly drug-fuelled sex near a beach overnight.
Officer keen to return to work
A Wairoa policeman attacked by two men in Mahia on Boxing Day is keen to get back to his job, Police Minister Judith Collins says.
<i>Dita De Boni</i>: From the front lines
Ira*, a social worker through the 1990s, left the front lines because she was sick of seeing so many abused children being returned to their wider families.
Girl, 6, left home alone
A 6-year-old girl was found home alone in her Tauranga house yesterday after both of her parents had left for work.
Fourth officer attacked on job
A Wairoa policeman became the fourth officer to be attacked on the job this month after he stopped two men suspected of carrying out a series of burglaries on the East Coast.
Baby left in car by shopping mother
Police are considering charging a mother who left her baby alone in a van while she went shopping on a steaming hot Christmas Eve in downtown Whangarei.
Broad: Machete attacks could be copycat crimes
An attack on a Hamilton police officer with a machete could have been a copycat of the machete attack on a Taihape officer, Howard Broad says.
Teens arrested over baton assault on policeman
A Northland police officer has been hit over the head with his own baton after being called out to deal with a drunken fight.
Sex conman fleeces pensioner
A pensioner has been blackmailed out of most of his life savings by a serial conman who threatened to spread rumours the two men were sexually involved.
Hidden horror of holiday season
Amidst the joy, celebration and festivities of Christmas and the New Year period lies the hidden horror of the holiday season, as the rates of domestic violence, alcohol abuse and road fatalities increase.
Girl raises $109 for abuse victim
Waitemata police are praising the actions of a nine-year-old Devonport girl raising money to help a victim of horrific child abuse.