A 55-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to an incident at a property in Korito yesterday. He's due to appear in New Plymouth District Court tomorrow. Police are not looking for anyone else in relation to this and enquiries are ongoing. If anyone has any information that can assist with the investigation... Continue Reading →
Police executed a search warrant at an address in Waverley yesterday morning with the assistance of Armed Offenders Squad staff. As a result of the warrant two firearms, ammunition, methamphetamine, cash and a large number of cannabis plants were located. A 36-year-old man was arrested and charged with unlawfully possess firearm, unlawfully possess ammunition, possess methamphetamine, possess... Continue Reading →
Police have released further information regarding the tragic incident near Raetihi yesterday, where three people were killed. Emergency services were called to a rural property just after 11am, after a vehicle crashed into a dam on the property. Police can now confirm four people - two adults and two children - were travelling on a... Continue Reading →
Three people have died after being trapped in a submerged vehicle near Raetihi today. Emergency services responded just after 11am today, after being notified that a vehicle had entered a farm pond at a rural property. Tragically the three people were deceased when recovered from the pond by emergency services. Police are working to support... Continue Reading →
Police have today filed charges of manslaughter against three Police officers in the New Plymouth District Court. The charges relate to the death of a 55-year-old man who died while in custody at the Hawera Police Station in the early hours of 1 June 2019. The charges allege that the officers were grossly negligent in... Continue Reading →
The Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned about the lack of scrutiny and rushed process for the COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill. “For weeks the Government has known that we would be moving to alert level 2. It has not allowed enough time for careful public democratic consideration of this level 2 legislation. There has... Continue Reading →
Today we have two new cases of COVID-19 to report, made up of one confirmed case and one probable case. The confirmed case is linked to the Marist College cluster. The person who has tested positive for COVID-19 is a student who has been in self-isolation since March 20. They had been contacted by Healthline... Continue Reading →
Today we have two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report and no new probable cases. Both of today’s cases can be linked to the St Margaret’s Hospital & Rest Home cluster in Auckland. Both cases are household contacts of an employee at the rest home. The total of confirmed and probable cases is 1,487. ... Continue Reading →
Today we have three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report. One of these is lined to an existing case and the other two remain under investigation. In addition to this we have also reclassified a previous probable case as not a case. This means the total for confirmed cases is 1,129 which is the... Continue Reading →
An urgent independent review into COVID-19 clusters at Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities is under way, and findings will be reported back to the Ministry of Health by the end of May. After the emergence of five significant COVID-19 clusters in ARC facilities – two in Christchurch, two in Auckland and one in Waikato –... Continue Reading →
