A police car stolen from a checkpoint in Hamilton in the early hours of today has been found.

A student had a knife held to his throat by a man who threatened to cut off his fingers and kill him if he didn't give him $100 to buy P.

The brother of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been sentenced over an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

Steven Joyce scrapped a planned crackdown on professional car thieves despite support from the Justice Ministry and police.

Police hunting the killer of Manawatu farmer Scott Guy are canvassing local farmers in the hope of uncovering information about firearm thefts.

A shoplifting spree in Queenstown has concluded with four boys expelled from their Melbourne school.

There has been no suggestion that dairy farmer Scott Guy or his wife were followed in the weeks before his murder but investigators would be remiss not to consider the possibility, police said today.

Police have released CCTV footage of two women being held up at gunpoint in an Auckland liquor shop over the weekend.

Police have acquired video footage of murdered farmer Scott Guy's wife to determine if she was being followed in the weeks before her husband's death, the Herald has learned.

Police have eliminated a woman seen giving away puppies from their murder inquiry and want to hear from two motorists.