Assault

A 14-year-old boy has been charged after allegedly stabbing a visitor to Gisborne in the face with a broken bottle.

A man is in intensive care with head, facial and spinal injuries after going outside his house to see who was driving a noisy scooter up and down the street.

A 21-year-old student remains in an induced coma at Dunedin Hospital after an alleged early-morning assault yesterday.

A man is in hospital with "non life-threatening injuries'' following an assault in Auckland's Swanson Street this morning.

A man has been hospitalised with serious head injuries after being attacked by two men with a steel bar in Auckland last night.

Police say it is too soon to say if a teenage bashing victim has brain damage after an attack in south Auckland last week.

A jealous ex-boyfriend will be sentenced in the Queenstown District Court next month for "serious violent offending" after punching a man in the face while he slept.

Dunedin police are concerned for the wellbeing of an intellectually disabled man, who was seriously injured during an assault at Heff's Hotel in South Dunedin but does not appear to have sought medical attention.

Two brothers who grew up thinking violence was a part of who they are have been jailed for six years for beating their cousin senseless and rolling his unconscious body down a riverbank.

Bowls champion Gary Lawson says Wellington police have agreed to diversion on charges of assault and wilful damage, but Christchurch police aren't accepting the arrangement just yet.

Night-time assaults could be slashed by more than a third simply by cutting back on pubs' operating hours, scientific research suggests.

A 35-year-old Queenstown man who attacked his wife, threatened her with a cigarette lighter and caused her to believe he would pour diesel over her and set it alight, was convicted of assault by Judge Kevin Phillips, in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.

Two Dunedin police officers were assaulted on Saturday night in what has been described as a "senseless and disgusting" attack.

Police are investigating four serious assaults which have occurred in Dunedin in four days.

Two police officers went on trial in Auckland today for attacks on students out celebrating St Patrick's Day.

A high-profile public servant accused of assaulting his teenage son is a "gentle fellow", Wellington District Court was told today.

A high profile Wellington public servant allegedly assaulted his teenage son after he attempted to run away from home with $700 which he had previously stolen from his mother.