A huge drugs case revealed how easy it was for inmates at Paremoremo to combine their skills and contacts to import pseudoephedrine to make P - all from behind bars

A Hastings man who sent a "malicious" letter to the mother-in-law of slain Feilding farmer Scott Guy has been convicted for wasting police time.

Nato and Afghan security forces are trying desperately to round up some of the 475 escaped Taleban prisoners.

An autistic man wrongfully convicted of rape and jailed for more than two years was awarded more than $350,000 compensation today.

Convicted murderer Joseph Martin Reekers has won another hearing after appealing his 15-year non-parole sentence for killing Auckland hairdresser Marie Jamieson 10 years ago.

Prison authorities have caught out a 14-year-old boy who tried to take cannabis hidden in his shoe into Hawke's Bay Regional Prison.

A controversial new private prison opened in Auckland today.

A violent sex offender stabbed his nephew while on bail - and was later allowed to call him repeatedly from prison in a bid to intimidate him into changing his evidence.

A restaurant manager created an elaborate scheme so he could steal nearly $140,000 from his employer to feed his gambling addiction.