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Judge hits alarm button over looming end to courts' alcohol and drug screening service

But a provider says it will put them in line with other courts around the country.

Radio host attempted murder plot was hatched by popular Auckland religious leader

Devotees in his temple were recruited to carry out the gruesome stab attack.

Group buying drugs at motel launch brutal attack on 'child molester'

The man had a knife held to his throat and was accused of being a sex offender.

Man killed in crash by Fulton Hogan worker - brother attacks road crew with meat cleaver

Only months prior, Nicholas Pukeroa lost his brother.

Ex-gym coach admits 32 more charges of sexual offending against young girls

The total number of offences he has admitted is now more than 60.

Auckland man jailed for possessing, sharing child sexual abuse material

The man appeared at Auckland District Court today where he was sentenced.

Slaughterhouse Fire: Chinese-owned meat company fined $51k

Penalty for discharging slaughterhouse waste, lighting rubbish fire that burned for days.

Puppies, cryptocurrency and offshore scammers: How one Kiwi became a money mule

He gave a mystery perpetrator his bank account to use, creating multiple victims.

'Crisis point': How one woman's life fell apart and why she's now being deported

Woman's trauma, mental health acknowledged but not enough to keep her from being deported.

Retire or get help: Elderly farmer fined for neglect of cows that were euthanised

A neighbour reported a cow lying in the yard was "barely alive".

Tourist who caused crash left NZ before drink-drive results known

American finance company manager Brett Reck was here on holiday with his wife and child.

Man says drugs were for own use - his safe password suggested otherwise

Drug seller claims money was from orchard work, building and pokies.

Whakaari eruption victims’ families - ‘I feel like a victim of negligence’

Richard Elzer's family speak at the Auckland District Court sentencing.

'Enough to level the Sky Tower': Amateur bomb-maker's threat that spurred large-scale evacuation

The wheelchair-bound ex-con had been released from prison two months earlier.

Stranger threatened guests at 80th birthday before fleeing with a Margarita

He walked over to the cake table, picked up a knife and started eating a piece of cake.

The rise of the sexsomnia defence: Justice or an easy out for rapists?

'Part of a broader culture of excusing [rape] behaviour' or 'not that easy'?

Woman who helped cop killer flee murder scene jailed for longer term after meth supply raid

The commercial meth enterprise started not long after her High Court sentencing.

Two men arrested after Huntly service station robberies

The offenders allegedly broke into two service stations within one minute.