Ashlee Broomfield crashed his motorbike and left his pillion passenger at the scene.

The athlete has elected trial by jury and been remanded in custody.

The alleged killer rewrote their will after killing them with the powerful opioid.

A Rotorua couple behind illegal teen prostitution ring have been sentenced.

Just 18 months after Thailand voted to make cannabis legal it could be backtracking.

He used his 'mana' in the community to recruit young men into the scheme, the Crown says.

Two-year-old Nevaeh was found face-down in water with two large rocks on top of her.

Man charged with murder admits he stabbed two men, but says he did not mean to kill them.

The man’s lawyer claims the last person who saw her alive was the man’s estranged wife.

All eyes are on Government MPs ahead of their arrival in Waitangi, works to control a large vegetation fire in Christchurch and the Drug Foundation sets up harm reduction drug checking ahead of Laneway Festival. Video / NZHerald / Getty / Newstalk ZB

Corrections wants to monitor David Stephenson closely now he's back in the community.

The church-going defendant “holds himself up as an example of what can go wrong”.

Joshua Timoti was suffering psychosis, but what role did methamphetamine play?

A former mortgage broker earned between $17k and $29k over 14 months from dealing.

Tahi-O-Hurae Rangiawha took his grievance into his own hands with serious consequences.

An upstanding family man was lucky to dodge death in one of the Comanchero shootings.

The long-time criminal needed a wheelchair after fleeing police and crashing a motorbike.

Karen Beale, 62, denies lacing a jar of Nescafe instant coffee with a foreign substance.

'Mr Kronic' sent synthetic cannabis product to go into vapes.

Ben Rankin was granted a 70 per cent sentence discount for the sloppy importations.

Taranaki woman has become a social media star after charting her meth addiction recovery.

Walkers found thousands in cash strewn across the beach before human remains were found.

Police are probing if the massive drug haul was headed to Australia.

20 years ago, a kilogram of meth was a big bust - now, that's become the norm.

Haami Hanara, who was neglected and abused, knifed a man to death when he was 14.

Neither the officer nor the dog were injured in the early morning attack.

'My time spent in the house taught me to be a better human being.'

WorkSafe found a 'very poor workplace culture' at the DHB after a clinician's suicide.