A resident on a property close to where ACT candidate Matt Yovich's hoarding was shot multiple times last week says they understand two children were asleep at the end of a house closest to where the shots were fired.

A police helicopter was used to help officers chase down a driver who fled after having his vehicle's tyres spiked in Christchurch overnight.

North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas, a UN human rights report says.

A young Utah man suspected of killing the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a university forum has been taken into custody.

More wild weather is on the way, bringing heavy rain, gale-force winds and the chance of thunderstorms to parts of the South, including Dunedin.