After losing $3600 to the rental scam, the couple had to live in emergency accommodation.

Wire Reddington had been on a two-day bender when he murdered Jamie Gill last year.

“Whatever the victim had done ...(there) was utterly no justification for your behaviour.”

The group had travelled to Wānaka that morning for a day of sightseeing.

The experienced civil worker was fined $4000.

Horowhenua District Council votes 8-3 to partially reinstate berm mowing.

The Health and Disability Commissioner found several failures by the midwife.

She woke in the early hours to a man, who can now be named, 'forcefully' violating her.

'Clearly, it was a stupid thing to do', a judge pointed out.

He stole her car with her baby in it and then dumped the boy on the roadside.

The review, published by Treasury, said police were facing cost pressures.

'Only a person who has sold their soul could commit such heinous crimes' - victim.

The judge called a short adjournment to allow the woman to compose herself.

Now the siblings have turned to the country's final court of appeal for access.

The man, who cannot be named yet, threatened to post a woman's naked photos online.

People wearing insignia from at least six different gangs are currently before the courts.

Marty Te Rangi says he is remorseful and wants to become a better person.

An opponent was knocked to the ground and taken to hospital by ambulance.

He fired a shot which flew past the son's head and through the TV.

Jake William Duncan died on a Hawke's Bay forestry site in 2021.

The woman was in the backseat of a car when she grabbed her aunty's hair and attacked her.

Craig Foliola's teen passenger spent a month in hospital but he's avoided a conviction.

Leslie Topia Barrowcliffe was selected for the Chiefs under-20s squad this year.

Her toddler was asleep next to her in a cot and the man had exposed himself.

He then hid the shank inside a milk carton in a rubbish bin.

Trevor Flood was being treated for cancer when he suffered a significant brain injury.

Brenton Tarrant's lawyers were granted a rare order to permanently suppress their names.

Chit Ko Ko was an undiagnosed schizophrenic when he fatally stabbed his neighbour.

The goods were stashed across lockups, homes, businesses and a shipping container.

Joel Buckley fired at police when they arrived at his home.