Police

He faces three counts of indecent communication with a young person under 16, and one of travelling to meet a young person/sex grooming.

One person has been transferred to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition.

Emergency services were called to the property in Auroa, South Taranaki at 8.50am.

One of the men was reportedly seriously injured, while the other was reported to have been moderately injured.

Police were notified of a crash on White Pine Bush Road at 11.40pm.

Police say the numbers of people signing up to the force is an encouraging signal they are on track to reach government recruitment targets.

The 29-year-old is due to appear in the Gisborne District Court tomorrow.

Four people have been arrested.

Police have confirmed a person was assaulted at a property on State Highway 12.

Officers spotted a young person riding a scooter which had been reported stolen 10 years earlier.

Three significant fires were sparked from fireworks being shot out of the window of a vehicle.

The prisoner was in a double-bunked cell, and the second prisoner has been secured during investigations, Corrections says.

Police say the new risk-and-harm framework for handling 111 calls has been set up after looking overseas for ideas.

The Minister for Mental Health has been told the police will "refuse welfare checks" under their pullback from social harm callouts.

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