Police

Police are hunting three men after a crime spree in which molotov cocktails were hurled at a suburban Wellington police station and a stolen car was destroyed by fire.

An alleged hit-and-run driver handed himself in to police hours after a pedestrian was seriously injured when hit by a car in the south Auckland suburb of Otara last night.

A Bay Of Plenty woman had her scalp torn off by an American pitbull dog after it joined in on an attack allegedly started by her sister.

Three men have appeared in court today over an alleged drug-related kidnapping in which a Wainuiomata man was apparently whipped and burned in a "prolonged and calculated assault".

Waikato police are applauding a member of the public who dobbed in a woman driver who was so drunk she passed out at the police station.

A 60-year-old man died early this morning after being knocked off his bicycle near Blenheim.

Wellington police investigating the murder of death-metal singer Matthew Hall believe his friends and associates may be holding back information crucial to identifying his killer.

One person has been arrested after a stand-off with armed police on Auckland's North Shore today.

A 44-year-old Hastings man has been arrested and charged with the murder of Douglas Bruce Apperley last month.