Two years after being found not guilty of murdering his twin sons, Chris Kahui is given permission to move in with his one-year-old daughter.

An eyewitness to an attack on school principal and councillor Hawea Vercoe, told a court his head was kicked like a rugby ball.

A man allegedly used his car to ram an ambulance and police cars before threatening police with a baseball bat on Saturday night, police say.

One of two teens severely injured in a brutal assault in an Auckland park has spoken for the first time of the night he almost died.

A professional rugby player facing assault charges after a bar incident in October cannot be named, despite a judge lifting a suppression order.

A customer who ran up a $5500 drug debt was kidnapped, beaten and forced to hand over his car by the "heavies" employed to collect the money.

A vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist in Sydney has made headlines across Canada.

The man suspected of killing an Auckland taxi driver told his flatmates in the days following the murder that a badly injured leg was caused by a game of basketball.

The caregivers of an intellectually disabled woman have been found guilty of manslaughter by a High Court jury today, after seven hours of deliberations.

A 17-year-old was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 15-1/2 years for murdering a taxi driver.