Police

Taupo police have arrested two people in connection with a drive-by shooting which left a teenager recovering in hospital after he took a shot in the stomach.

Hamilton Police investigating the overnight stabbing of three people in the south of the City have arrested three people following the search of a number of properties today.

The Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) searched a house in Hamilton this morning after an overnight stabbing left three people injured, one seriously.

Orientation Week is about to begin again in the student precinct and Dunedin police have warned that people who drink and drive will be targeted in an operation being run to coincide with the event

A police constable shot four times while investigating a suspected car break-in in south Auckland in December 2009 says he has no doubt about the identity of the gunman.

A teenager is recovering in hospital after he was shot in the stomach in a drive-by shooting in Taupo last night.

Police are yet to establish why a van crossed the centre line and slammed into another vehicle in Waikato yesterday, killing the van's driver.

One of two teenagers charged with attempted murder after a policeman was attacked with a machete at Taihape on December 11 last year has pleaded guilty.

Serious failures in the police investigation of child abuse cases during the last decade must never be repeated, Independent Police Conduct Authority chairwoman Justice Lowell Goddard said today.

Police have named the 45-year-old woman killed at her home in southeast Auckland on Monday night.