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Trio resolves $17m lotto dispute
A battle between three friends over a $17m prize has been settled on the day a trial was due to begin.
Lucky escape for teens
Four teenagers escaped relatively unscathed after plunging 150m off the towering Te Mata Peak in the Hawkes Bay
Mother remembers 'vibrant daughter'
Teenager Rochelle Elston had been working hard milking cows to save money for a trip to the Gold Coast with her father.
Triple fatality continues horror week on roads
A horror seven days has seen 18 people die in 12 road accidents and has left police blaming speed and alcohol as a factor in many of them.
How a drugs bust turned into a deadly siege that shocked NZ
The day he died, Senior Constable Len Snee started work early, jogging past Jan Molenaar's house at dawn to conduct a final reconnaissance.
Molenaar 'fired 120 rounds at police, neighbours'
A steel chest plate and Kevlar-type body armour made from a motorcycle jacket protected Jan Molenaar during the Napier seige, an inquest heard.
Napier gunman was 'waiting to burst' - police
A coroner believes police could not have known how Jan Molenaar was going to react.
Napier siege inquest: Latest updates
The police officers shot by Napier gunman Jan Molenaar did not take all possible precautions but could not have known how Molenaar was going to react, according to Coroner David Crerar.
Mate says Molenaar 'just snapped'
Jan Molenaar asked police negotiators during his two-day shooting siege to let one of his childhood friends into his Napier house
'Too old to start again' - siege inquest hears of gunman's low spirits
A police inspector speaking at the inquest into the Napier gun seige said he believed it would end in a suicide or "suicide by police."
Napier siege inquest: Latest updates
nzherald.co.nz's Edward Gay reports live from day two of the inquest into the Napier gun siege.
Inquest into Napier siege: Latest updates
nzherald.co.nz's Edward Gay reports live from the inquest into the Napier gun siege.