The lawyer of a former NZ Olympian says he is pleased with two not guilty verdicts on charges of raping and assaulting his wife, but wouldn't comment on the possibility of a retrial.

Allan Moffatt's son James will partner Steven Richards at this year's Bathurst 1000.

A shattered family is waiting for answers after a seemingly healthy teenager was found dead in bed without any apparent cause.

The majority of NZers support an end to commercial tobacco sales by 2020, a UMR Research survey finds.

The brother of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been sentenced over an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

A former school teacher has gone on trial for allegedly using the internet to lure a person he thought was a NZ teen for sex.

A woman police constable was attacked by a motorist she pulled over for drunken driving.

A probe into the escape of genetically engineered plants from a government laboratory found scientists had left routes open.