Pita Sharples is defending a $6000 meeting he held with gang leaders, describing it as 'quiet diplomacy'.

Cabinet minister Paula Bennett's daughter will today appear in court on drink driving charges after being caught during a blitz.

The actor shot by police after allegedly rushing at them with a weapon has spoken publicly for the first time.

People wanting to buy cold and flu tablets with pseudoephedrine will need a prescription from their doctor.

Tighter restrictions on the sale of over-the-counter cold and flu tablets containing pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in P, are on the way.

An Australian woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter.

A man raped by a relative at the age of 7 says the Government will have 'blood on its hands' if it introduces proposed new rules for sex abuse counselling.

Liquor law changes which would have closed Auckland suburban bars before midnight will be scrapped after a hostile reception.

This is the 70-year-old grandmother accused of drink-driving and killing a new dad.