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Scared stiff at Spookers
A haunted scream park in Franklin is not for the faint-hearted, writes Jacqueline Smith.
Spy: Inside Eric Watson's $10m party palace
Want to live like Eric Watson? Now you can. The troubled Hanover Finance co-founder is selling his Auckland estate.
Man who used car as murder weapon jailed for 14 years
A man who deliberately crashed into a car killing the female driver has been jailed for at least 14 years.
Rain easing, roads reopening
Rain eased in Gisborne overnight and surrounding roads reopened after flooding and slips caused evacuations.
Tormented driver's journey of death
In part five of his series on 2009's big trials, Andrew Koubaridis revisits the night Tony Worrell drove into Katie Powles.
Ex-wife regrets decision to let drunk husband go
The estranged wife of convicted murderer Tony Worrell says she regrets not doing more to make him stay home the night he drove into two cars.
Man guilty of murdering woman in deliberate crash
Tony Worrell was responsible for Katie Powles' death when he deliberately crashed into her on June 3, 2008, a jury found today.
Judge's husband dies in stables blaze
The man killed in a fire on his South Auckland farm was the husband of district court judge Jane Lovell-Smith.