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.

Prime Minister John Key has appeared alongside actor Hugh Jackman in a video made by an Australian man for his Kiwi wife.

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

The identity of a woman at the centre of an alleged $1.4 million Waikato bank fraud has been revealed.

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.