Mount Maunganui company director Alan Spiers has been convicted of punching Fair Go...

Two men are in hospital with head injuries after being assaulted during the Rugby World Cup celebrations in Auckland last night.

Police apologised for failing to send help to an intellectually disabled man and his caregiver after they rang 111. The pair were sheltering in a locked car as a woman attacked their vehicle and shouted abuse.

A former Kiwi politician has been charged with his wife's murder, a year after she drowned in a fishing accident in Canada.