Police

Gang members were arrested and items recovered after police swooped on two North Dunedin addresses early yesterday morning.

A 21-year-old hitchhiker accused of attacking a good samaritan who offered him a place to stay for the night has been charged with murder.

A Facebook tip-off has been credited with helping catch a 25-year-old driver who allegedly fled police after crashing into another car in Otorohanga.

A postmortem will be carried out on the body of a young woman after it was found in "unexplained circumstances" at a riverside jetty in Balclutha yesterday morning.

No new information on the fate of missing skipper Bruce Gordon (42) and crew member Darren Allen (37), or what happened to their crayfishing boat, K-Cee, came to light yesterday, police in Te Anau said last night.

Unfit, overweight police officers wearing stab-resistant body armour are potentially putting their lives at risk during extreme policing scenarios, a study reveals.

Last month's road toll was the lowest since records began - but police are warning motorists not to become complacent, and to continue driving safely.

Police in Oamaru are asking members of the public to be on the lookout for a discarded poppy donation box, after the theft of RSA donations on Anzac Day.

The person who stabbed a man outside a Port Chalmers bar early yesterday remains at large.

The Southern police district has recorded the largest number of drugged drivers in the South Island, with a Dunedin driver who drove into four parked cars the latest allegedly caught under the influence behind the wheel.