Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop.

A Super 14 rugby player is before the courts over a carpark assault that left a man needing medical treatment.

A television programme about the life of convicted double-murderer Mark Lundy is set to go ahead.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

Police Minister talks tough after one cop goes into a coma and another had his lip bitten off.

Police have warned the attackers who beat an off-duty policemen nearly to death when he tried to stop a fight yesterday, that their time is nearly up.

An off-duty police officer seriously assaulted yesterday afternoon is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Name suppression has lifted for the boy convicted of the murder and indecent assault of Northland teenager Liberty Templeman.

An off-duty police officer is in hospital after being seriously assaulted in Tuakau, south of Auckland.

A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering and indecently assaulting schoolgirl Liberty 'Libby' Templeman in November 2008.

The judge presiding over the Liberty Templeman murder trial says there may have to be a retrial if a verdict cannot be reached.

Two youths have admitted murder and manslaughter charges between them over the death of a Christchurch taxi driver.

The jury hearing the trial of the boy accused of murdering Liberty Templeman has retired to reach its verdict.

Former Australian soccer star Ian Gray died from a lethal dose of heroin, a report today claims.