A prisoner's unanswered pleas for rehabilitation treatment has led to criticism of Corrections' record on reducing reoffending,

ESR scientists believe blood found on items belonging to the accused boy belonged to murdered teen Liberty Templeman.

It took four years of complex legal wrangling, nearly bankrupted an ailing Hindu guru and has cost the British taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.

Labour and Maori Party strongholds will be hit if prisoners are stopped from voting, a prison reform group says.

A NZ blogger denying five charges of breaching suppression orders has revealed on a website the name of a child porn offender who has name suppression.

South Auckland small business owners are feeling safer after a series of violent attacks in 2008, but say more police and security are needed.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

A proposed three strikes law would have done nothing to prevent some of New Zealand's most notorious killings, critics say.