Police

Busy radio traffic on a police network which stopped an officer calling for help for his badly wounded colleague was "the worst-case scenario", says the police union.

The man found stabbed to death in a Wellington suburban house been named as 35-year-old Matthew John Hall. 

One man was killed and another seriously injured after a head-on crash between a 4WD and a van in the Waikato town of Putararu tonight.

A homicide investigation is underway in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville after a man was discovered stabbed to death in his bed last night. 

A police officer has denied he was texting when the patrol car he was driving hit and killed a 16-year-old youth in Northland in 2009.

A hung jury has ended the trial of Jamie Alan Sinclair, accused of injuring a police constable when he unlawfully drove off in a patrol car parked at a drink-drive checkpoint.

Police are no closer to identifying the body of a man found on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North on Sunday but say he was in his 30s or 40s.

Police are treating the discovery of a man's body at a Wellington house last night as a homicide.

A man accused of murdering a woman in east Auckland last night appeared in court today, as police struggle to track down the victim's family in India to give them the bad news.

Police are appealing for help to identify the badly decomposed body of a man found on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North on Sunday.