Paul David Bailey, the killer of Owaka schoolgirl Kylie Smith, has been denied parole.

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.

The Parole Board has released its reasons for releasing Tuhoe activist Tame Iti on parole, saying he was been an "exemplary" prisoner.

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 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.

The so-called Urewera Four have lost their appeals against conviction and sentence, but the case could still be taken to the Supreme Court.

A transgender woman who struck a man over the head with a bottle of sparkling wine has pleaded with a judge not to send her to a men's prison.

The 32-year-old, jailed yesterday for five years, will have his first parole hearing in December.