Christchurch police have arrested a man they were seeking after a stolen car ploughed into another vehicle in Leeston, south of the city, earlier this month.

Four men are on trial at the High Court in Hamilton over the rape of a woman in the city in April 2011.

A young Hamilton mother and her children are unable to sleep at night after what has been described as the worst burglary police have seen in a decade.

A former Napier city councillor accused of murdering his wife has gone on trial in Canada.

A man has admitted to setting a Taranaki house on fire, while three people were asleep inside.

A double blow for a recidivist burglar.

Police have concerns for the wellbeing of a missing Lower Hutt man.

A 38-year-old man entered no plea to charges of murdering two of his relatives in their home near Kaitaia.

One of those alleged to have set Shalvin Prasad on fire was with him on the day when he withdrew $30,000 from his bank account, according to police.

The neighbours of a couple fatally shot near Kaitaia in the Far North say they heard shouting and gunshots being fired.

The Crown has opened its case against a Napier man allegedly involved in a serious assault in the city's Sunken Gardens a year ago.