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Police updates: Jacks Point fatality, Three Kings crash

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 1 April 2023. UPDATE – Serious crash, Three Kings Police can confirm a person has died following a crash...

Police seeking to identify man following Queenstown assault – UPDATED

Police are asking for the community's assistance following a violent assault at a bar on Church Street, Queenstown in the early hours of this...

Police updates – Stewart Island missing person, Glendhu Bay death

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 4 March 2023. Missing man located - Stewart island The man missing on Stewart Island has been found by...

Police seek witnesses to serious assault in Queenstown

Queenstown Police are seeking the public’s assistance in its investigation into a serious assault early this morning. The incident occurred on Shotover Street at around...

Information sought after man found injured, Dunedin

Dunedin Police are asking for the public to come forward with information, after a man was seriously injured last night. Police were called about 7pm...

Search for missing hunter near Glenorchy continues

Murray Horsfield went missing last weekend when he was hunting in the Dart River catchment. He was last heard from on Sunday afternoon. He was...

Police updates – Mt. Aspiring rivers warning, Mount Maunganui water incident

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 4 February 2023. Mt Aspiring Rivers at dangerously high levels Police warn people planning to tramp through Mt Aspiring...

The Top 10 Travel Spots of Dunedin

Dunedin is on the southeastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. With its mix of Maori and Scottish heritage, Victorian and Edwardian architecture,...

Manly and Glenorchy water deaths – police release names

Name release - water incident, Glenorchy Police can now name the man who died in the water at Glenorchy last Thursday 19 January. He was 35-year-old...

Body recovered in search for missing swimmer in Glenorchy

The man missing in the water at Glenorchy has been located deceased by the Police National Dive Squad. The Dive Squad recovered the body this...

Search continues for person missing in water at Glenorchy

Today Police will resume the search for the person reported missing in the water at Glenorchy yesterday. The Police National Dive Squad are expected to...

Police updates – Remuera incident, Havelock North arrest

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 19 January 2023. Serious incident - Remuera Police are in attendance at an incident on Orakei Road, Remuera, which...

Name release – Lake Wakatipu

Police can now name the man who died at Lake Wakatipu on 13 January. He was Linkin Kisling, aged 48, from Wānaka.

Police updates – Lake Wakatipu search, Twizel car crash

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 15 January 2023. Update - Lake Wakatipu search A man missing in Lake Wakatipu was yesterday located deceased by...

Dunedin homicide update – 18 year old charged with murder

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder following an incident on Helensburgh Road this morning. He is due to appear in the Dunedin District...

Homicide investigation launched, Dunedin

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman was located deceased in the early hours of this morning following an incident in Wakari,...

Police updates – Glenorchy and Kaitoke water incidents, Paeroa medical emergency

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 13 January 2023. Name release - Kaitoke Regional Park water incident Police are now in a position to name...

Information sought following firearms incident, Kaitangata

Police are asking for the public's help after an alleged firearms incident on Friday 6 January between Kaitangata and Milton. About 11.15pm, a man driving...

Police updates – Edendale fatal crash, South Auckland gang convoy

Updates on crimes and investigations for 28 December 2022. Person dies following Edendale, Southland crash Police can confirm a man has died following a single-vehicle road...

Horse truck roll-over, SH1 Waikouaiti Road- Waitati Road near Dunedin

Police and emergency services are in attendance at a single vehicle roll-over on SH1 between Wilson and Stead Roads. A horse truck has rolled over...

Mt. Pisa fatal crash – police seek witnesses

Police are seeking to establish the movements of a motorcyclist prior to a fatal incident on State Highway 6, the Cromwell-Luggate Highway. The rider crashed...

Operation Dust: Alexandra Police target unlawful off-road motorcycle use

Alexandra Police have stopped 14 individuals for unlawful off-road motorcycle use in the parks and reserves around the wider Alexandra area over the past...

Dunedin death to be referred to the Coroner.

Police can confirm a person has died in an incident on Bond Street, Dunedin. At about 6am this morning, Emergency services attended a report of...

Dunedin fatal crash – police seek witness in white van

Police are seeking the driver of a van who witnessed a fatal crash in Dunedin at approximately 7.55am on Wednesday 16 November. The crash took...

Lake Wanaka missing swimmer – body found

The Police National Dive Squad searching for a swimmer who went missing in Lake Wanaka has recovered a body this afternoon. While formal identification is...

Police updates – Waihola Highway crash, house fire in Ngaruawahia, Firth of Thames missing kayaker

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 6 November 2022. Update - Waihola Highway crash One person has died following a crash on Waihola Highway (State...

Octagon brawl – Dunedin police seek witnesses

Police are seeking witnesses to a serious assault that involved people fighting near the Dunedin Social Club about 3.30am on Saturday 29 October in...

‘Friend’ jailed for murder of Dunedin woman Ameria Whatuira

Naomi Lee Morrison was sentenced to 'life' imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 12 years and three months. 44 year old Morrison stabbed Whatuira...

Sawpit Gully death – police seek public’s help in locating deceased’s items

Police making enquiries on behalf of the Coroner into the death of Wai Ming Lai are appealing for the public's help locating items belonging...

Operation Connect: Queenstown Police make significant bust of online drug network

Queenstown Police have put a stop to one of the Southern district's largest online operations for the sale and distribution of controlled Class A,...

Do you recognise this man?

Queenstown Police are seeking the public's help with their enquiries into the movements of a tourist who died over Labour Weekend. On Saturday 22 October,...

Dunedin sex attacker Jahmin Mauna McNeill-Hulme jailed

24 year old McNeill-Hulme was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment. Judge David Robinson also gave McNeill-Hulme leave to apply for home detention if a suitable...

Police updates – Mangaweka fatal crash, Dunedin pedestrian death

Police updates on crimes and investigatons for 21 October 2022. Pedestrian death - Dunedin A pedestrian struck by a car in Carroll Street, Dunedin has died. The...

Murder charge laid in relation to Sean Buis homicide investigation

A 35-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in relation to the death of Sean Buis. Sean, aged 28, was fatally struck by...

Murder charge following fatal assault in Momona, Dunedin

A 20-year-old man has been taken into custody following a serious assault in Momona, Dunedin yesterday afternoon where another man died. He has been charged...

Fatal assault in Momona, Dunedin – police investigating

A man has died following a report of an assault on Miller Road, Dunedin just before 2pm yesterday. The man with stab wounds was initially...

Stabbing on Bath Street, Dunedin – appeal for information

Police are appealing for information about an incident on Bath Street, Dunedin late last night. A man was transported to hospital with serious stab wounds...

Police updates – Gisborne shooting, Masterton asssault

Police updates on crimes and investigations for 29 September 2022. Arrest following incident in Totara Street, Gisborne Gisborne Police have made an arrest after two youths...

Two men arrested in Dunedin for serious drug offences

Police with the assistance of Customs have arrested and charged two men in connection to serious drug offences. Following the seizure of 91kg of cocaine...

Ameria Whatuira murder – ‘good mate’ pleads guilty

44 year old Naomi Lee Morrison has pleaded guilty to the murder of Ameria Whatuira today in the Dunedin High Court. Morrison and Whatuira were...

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