The savage bashing and stomping of a 16-yr-old in Christchurch was recorded on a mobile so the video could be put on the net, a court hears.

Maurice Williamson's comments that opponents of land sales to foreigners were sometimes being racist was a case of humour backfiring, John Key said today.

A Hastings teenager jailed for assaulting his mother told police they had made his life hell and he would become the next Jan Molenaar.

New Zealand Football announced a multi-million dollar five-year partnership with ASB today.

The police have handed the investigation on Google's Street View data gathering back to the Privacy Commissioner.

There have been more than 1000 submissions against plans to build houses on an unspoilt Coromandel beach.