Police

Police issued tickets to six drivers using cellphones during a one-hour operation in central Dunedin yesterday.

Two women were arrested and drugs, firearms and stolen property valued at $15,000 seized in an armed police raid in south Auckland yesterday.

One southern police officer has been suspended and another stood down, both on full pay.

A series of incidents in Dunedin during the weekend has left police seeking witnesses.

Police have named a man killed in an accident in south Auckland yesterday.

An English tourist has been arrested and charged in relation to a stabbing at the Glenorchy Holiday Park early on Sunday.

A 64-year-old Palmerston man has been charged in connection with an alleged hit-and-run incident in the town on Sunday afternoon.

Four Kaitangata men caught in a police poaching sting were last night trespassed from several forests between Te Anau and Ashburton.

Three people , including an eight-year-old boy and a teenager, have died on New Zealand's roads today.

A Whangarei police officer's future in the force is now in doubt after he lost his bid to be discharged without conviction for drink-driving.