NZ's minimum driving age is likely to rise by one year to 16 under a Government road safety strategy to be unveiled tomorrow.

There has been an attempted abduction of two young girls from Hill Park school in Manurewa, in south Auckland, this morning.

A 16-year-old girl and two other Tuakau residents are likely to be nominated for a bravery award for helping an off-duty policeman when he was beaten nearly to death last week.

Thieves broke into the home of a Kings College student who died in his sleep last week taking thousands of dollars worth of electronics, including a computer bearing his childhood photos.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

The teenager who was yesterday unmasked as Liberty Templeman's murderer has received death threats on the internet.

An off-duty police officer seriously assaulted yesterday afternoon is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Six school children are taken to hospital after a bus and another vehicle collided in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden today.

Police have released the name of the student found dead at King's College in Otahuhu, south Auckland, yesterday.

South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is single-handedly stopping Australia from introducing an R18 classification for video games - effectively banning adult games.

A 15-year-old college boy was found dead by his schoolmates in his boarding house this morning.

A 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy has been remanded in custody over the stabbing death of a fellow student.