Weapons recovered after brawl
A fight on a north Oamaru street on Saturday morning developed into a brawl.
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Caravan catches fire, destroying possessions
A Queenstown man was uninjured, but left with only the shirt and trousers he was wearing when his caravan caught fire early on Saturday.
Man critical after street atatck
An Upper Hutt man is in critical condition on life support in Wellington Hospital following a serious assault early today.
Home alone kids in appalling conditions
A woman has been charged with abandoning her young children who were found home alone in squalid conditions early this morning.
Man dies in Waikato crash
A man died after a car crashed into a bus shelter and telegraph pole and finished up in the garden of a house in Mangakino in the Waikato early today.
Law allows for wider sampling of DNA
Man killed 'walking home from party'
Police believe a 53-year-old Palmerston man killed when he was hit by a ute on State Highway 85 was walking home from a party.
Police irked by lost man
Oamaru police are "not impressed" with a hunter who used his cellphone to tell police he was lost on Mt Misery near Waianakarua on Saturday morning.
Policeman to appeal conviction for assault with intent to injure
The second of two Dunedin police officers convicted of assaulting and injuring a man they were trying to restrain is appealing his conviction.