A Chinese woman involved in a gambling scam with her ex-boyfriend and a casino worker that stole more than $50,000 has avoided a jail sentence but will be deported.

An Auckland area manager for the Switched On Gardener chain of hydroponic stores has won an appeal to have his sentence reduced.

A woman who imported more than 2kg of party drugs from the UK has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention.

Stewart Murray Wilson boasted to a vulnerable women he was banned from contacting that he could cut off his monitoring bracelet and flee to Australia with her.

Convicted sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson has had his bid for a judicial review of his parole conditions dismissed - because he has already been sent back to jail.

Convicted double murderer David Tamihere has been found not guilty of breaching his parole conditions after an "incredibly stupid" crime scene fly-over with a TV crew.

One of the country's worst drink-driving killers wants to live with his girlfriend when he is released from prison in June.

A Rotorua woman whose home was torched by her ex-partner is shocked he has been released from jail after serving just over one-third of his sentence.

The convicted murderer of Timaru hitch-hiker Lisa Blakie continues to pledge his innocence and hopes to clear his name, it emerged today.

A murderer serving a life sentence is not ready to be released says the Parole Board. But because he is a mental health patient, he has already been out into the community.

The family of Tame Iti will have nearly two weeks to decide how to celebrate his release after the veteran Tuhoe activist was granted parole today.

Six people have been sentenced to a total of more than 39 years in prison for their parts in a "large-scale" drugs and money laundering operation stretching across the Bay of Plenty and into Waikato and Auckland.

A transgender prisoner has been ordered to serve her sentence in a men's prison, not on home detention as requested.

A former lover has admitted setting fire to his ex-partner's house and torching her car after failing to win her back.

A hearing on whether convicted killer David Tamihere breached his parole by flying over an historic Coromandel murder scene has been delayed for six months.

A sexual assault victim faced her attacker in court and described how his "depravity" had robbed her of her childhood.