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A house fire has destroyed a property in Wellington over night.

A "clear combination of events" led to an air tragedy in which three people died, a coroner says.

A 17-year-old died after a brutal assault near an area that had developed into a "serious alcohol fuelled violent zone'', an inquest into his death has found.

A former Civil Aviation Authority investigator accused of faking an email presented to a coroner's inquest has been found not guilty.

A young mother who died in an house fire had disconnected one of her smoke alarms earlier in the evening because it kept beeping, according to a coroner's finding.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a 20-year-old male was stabbed to death near a bar north of Wellington early this morning, the second death in the area in just over a month.

The CAA investigator who allegedly forged an email presented to an air crash inquest will defend charges against him, his lawyer says.