An uncle of Chris and Cru Kahui today denied threatening that "somebody would get a bullet" if they talked to police about the night the baby twins suffered their fatal injuries.

If the kids are city slickers, get visit a local petting farm to get them in touch with some of New Zealand's favourite animals.

A man is defending accusations that he held a rabbit by its ears and thrust it at passers-by in Auckland's Queen Street.

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.

John Skinner says the only thing he can remember from the confrontation with a slain officer is firing a single shot before his memory went "blank".

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.