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Auckland: Soldiers of fortune
Retired troops came here to defend the colony from the "Maori threat" and stayed to found the settlements of Onehunga, Panmure, Otahuhu and Howick.
Retired troops came here to defend the colony from the "Maori threat" and stayed to found the settlements of Onehunga, Panmure, Otahuhu and Howick.
A $465,000 house has been seized from a commercial cannabis grower as punishment instead of an 18-month prison sentence.
The family of Auckland woman Folole Muliaga plan to sue both Mercury Energy and Middlemore Hospital over her 2007 death.
Two former sex workers who have been without an income since a six-month job scheme ended on May 21 were granted unemployment benefits yesterday.
Two men accused of killing an undercover cop were fit, young men who decided to take the law into their own hands, a court hears.
A fire at an Auckland primary is the second major school fire in the upper North Island in two days, after arsonists torched classrooms at Kerikeri High.
A man accused of shooting dead an undercover police officer in 2008 denied he had guns and weapons at his house to protect a meth operation, the High Court heard today.
The man accused of shooting dead an undercover police officer says he did so out of self defence, the High Court has heard.
Murder accused John Skinner said he fired shots at Sergeant Don Wilkinson because he thought Mr Wilkinson was "reaching for something to harm him with", a jury has heard.
An undercover officer says he took secret equipment from a slain colleague because he didn't want it falling into the wrong hands.
A police officer who was at the scene where an undercover officer was shot dead in 2008 says there was an element of risk involved that night.
A police officer at the scene where an undercover officer was killed in 2008 says body armour is "very hot, it's very bulky and... quite detectable".
The detective in charge of an undercover police operation where an officer was shot dead broke down in tears before a jury today as he recalled his colleague radioing for help.
Hiding in the shadows in the early hours of the morning, two members of a specialist police team crept into a driveway...
Two undercover police officers were shot at close range, one fatally, after they and a colleague was sprung trying to put a tracking device on a car, a jury has been told.