Police

Formal identification of the body, which was found near the mouth of the harbour, is still underway.

The death is being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing.

Police are investigating the circumstances of her death.

Coromandel police say they have carried out over 900 alcohol breath tests across 28 checkpoints yesterday that resulted in five drivers being processed for excess breath alcohol.

Two motorcyclists were critically injured in crashes in Auckland and the Whakatāne district.

Police are searching for those responsible after cars were rammed and on-lookers were sent running and screaming.

Police in Waikato offered more in reward money earlier this year than they have spent in their search for Tom Phillips and his children.

The cyclist suffered a broken leg and other injuries.

Emergency services were called to Nuffield Avenue in Marewa around 9pm Friday.

There are lengthy delays on a major road on the Coromandel Peninsula after a fatal crash.

Police say they have caught three men with $2700 of shoplifted loot, after a sticky fingered Boxing Day spree.

A gaggle of Canada geese that sparked warnings to motorists have been persuaded to move on.

The officers - who had been called to a case of family harm - tried to persuade the 48-year-old out of the water but he refused.

The crash on Te Araroa Road, between Hicks Bay and Cape Runaway, was reported to police at 11.15am.

The Waikato man had failed to arrive in Huntly as expected, after leaving his Ōtorohanga home about noon on Christmas Day.

Police remain on Wood Street and the surrounding areas.

Americans Kurt Blair and Carlos Romero and an unnamed Canadian national have been missing since 2 December.

A 28-year-old man is due to appear in Court at a later date.

Maia Johnston left a family address in Totara Park, Upper Hutt, at around 8.30pm on Saturday.

Another 20 people were injured, two critically, in the crash on 19 December.