Police

The ex-policeman who accused a former traffic officer of burying the body of Mona Blades beneath a Kawerau property, prompting a new search, had told police the same man was linked to another inf

Cromwell police are investigating an incident in which a 15-year-old boy allegedly threatened another teenager with a knife in the town yesterday.

A man wandering around with an air pistol and a radio tuned to the police frequency has "all sorts of sinister connotations", Judge Michael Turner said yesterday.

Car owners in the St Kilda and City Rise are advised to remove possessions from their vehicles following a spate of thefts.

A 3% wage rise and inflation rate would mean police would have to save $477 million in the next four years, police bosses told Parliament yesterday.

A Queenstown man who allegedly stripped naked and jumped off the historic steamship TSS Earnslaw into Lake Wakatipu yesterday morning will appear in the Queenstown District Court next week.