
Last-minute $15m Lotto win
A couple were told at two outlets they were too late to get a Lotto ticket before chancing upon a store still open and buying their ticket.
A couple were told at two outlets they were too late to get a Lotto ticket before chancing upon a store still open and buying their ticket.
The organisers of Lotto say they will review safety on the set of their Saturday night television show.
Brian Rudman asks: "If a national convention centre is the vital piece of missing infrastructure to guarantee our future prosperity, why are they shackling it to the whims of a gambling empire?"
New Zealand First representation for Tauranga will now be shared by leader Winston Peters and the party's other MPs after the expulsion of Brendan Horan.
Australian authorities will get the full cooperation of New Zealand investigators if they choose to extradite the conman convicted of a $3 million fraud.
A victim of Loizos Michaels clapped as the "brazen" conman was led into the cells.
The alleged conman who carried out "bold frauds on a grand scale" says he is the victim.
The alleged conman who carried out "bold frauds on a grand scale" says he is the victim.
The winner of Lotto Powerball's huge jackpot is yet to claim their prize, but the owner of the Invercargill shop it was bought in hopes they might come forward today.
New Zealand First MP Brendon Horan is under investigation, for allegedly dipping into his late mother's bank account.
The man at the centre of an alleged $3 million fraud case will discover his fate in two weeks.
Loizos Michaels convinced people to "think big" and believe in his investment plans - before he fleeced them of more than $3 million, a court has heard.
The former chief executive of Christchurch Casino had plans to take over SkyCity with backing from National Party president Peter Goodfellow, says an alleged conman.
Two senior National Party figures were involved in plans to apply for a casino licence, an alleged conman says.
What's protecting the pokie industry from reform is that it props up respectable New Zealand, writes Brian Rudman. Everything from grand opera to Girl Guides to pony clubs.
The mother who left her five children in a van in a SkyCity Casino carpark while she and her partner gambled hopes to become a social worker.