File photo. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
Detective Senior Sergeant Terri Wilson said the arrest of the 47-year-old man unfolded without any issues and was in response to an incident in Raglan's Manu Bay, on New Year's Day.
The man is scheduled to appear in Hamilton District Court on Wednesday on firearm-related charges.
A person is dead after a motorcycle crash north of Hamilton, and one has died after a car crashed into the water, closing a busy Coromandel Peninsula coastal highway.
Five teenagers have been arrested after two cases of drivers fleeing through Auckland less than an hour apart, police say.
Police say they have zero tolerance for the dangerous driving seen in Auckland yesterday when dozens of dirtbike riders blocked intersections and drove on the wrong side of the road.
An investigation into last year's fatal Sea World helicopter crash on the Gold Coast that involved two New Zealand families has found the pilot killed in the disaster tested positive for traces of…
The body of a man who went missing while snorkelling in a bay south of Kaikōura has been found.
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