Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.

Search warrants have been executed on about 10 properties in Papatoetoe as part of a police probe into a possible Super City voting scam.

Police are investigating a possible attempt to influence the Super City election in which nearly 90 voters have been enrolled as living in two houses.

Barely a day after the end of a Queen's Birthday weekend with the lowest road toll in 54 years, two people - one a 3-year-old boy - died in separate crashes.

A child has been killed in a bus crash near the Northland town of Kaeo and another person has died after a crash in Canterbury late today.

Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.

The identity of the man accused of trying to murder a policeman, hit four times in a hail of gunfire, remains suppressed.

Organisations discussing how 'social policy forum' will work best.

The identity of the man accused of shooting a police officer in Papatoetoe will remain a secret until at least tomorrow.

A man arrested in connection with the shooting of an Auckland police officer has been given bail.

Injured police officer Jeremy Snow is itching to get out of his hospital bed and back to his police work.