Alcohol-poisoning victim James Webster's father says his son's death would have been avoided if he'd known the risk he was taking.

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After his son admitted encouraging James Webster to drink, a tearful John Banks accepted responsibility for the boy's actions 'because that's what a father should do'.

Auckland Zoo has been given the go-ahead to a $13m proposal to bring in a herd of up to 10 Asian elephants, and expand into Western Springs park.

Chris Kahui has changed his mind about why he thinks his former partner Macsyna King caused the deaths of their twin boys, a coroner's inquest heard today.

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Chris Kahui said "whatever" when Macsyna King asked him to come to the hospital to see their injured sons, an inquest has been told.

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A teen who drank himself to death at a party earlier this year regularly passed out after drinking, an inquest into his death was told.

The mother of the Kahui twins broke down in tears at an inquest today as she conceded that her evidence about how she came into hospital "does not match" that of a nurse.

A mother has told a court she knew teenager James Webster was dead as soon as she walked into the room where he had been put to bed.

Peng Cheng Tian, 26, has been found guilty in the High Court in Auckland of stabbing a fellow student to death and putting her body in a suitcase.

The Kahui twins' mother was enrolled in an anger management course a month before they were fatally injured but never attended, an inquest into their deaths heard today.

Two young brothers who went missing from their home overnight were found with a relative who had not called anyone, say police.

During Waimarino's new Thermal Hot Pool & Glow-worm Cave Kayak Tour, paddlers skirt the bushy shores of Lake Rotoiti before slipping into a cave where glow-worms twinkle all around.

Dozens of homeowners are asking more than $20k a week in rent for the RWC with at least one website threatening to remove some listings.

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