Police are searching for a second man who is presumed drowned after a floundering expedition went tragically wrong.

Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.

The caregivers of an intellectually disabled woman have been found guilty of manslaughter by a High Court jury today, after seven hours of deliberations.

The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.

The defence closed its case today in the trial of two caregivers accused of beating an intellectually impaired woman and leaving her to die.

The wife of a slain south Auckland liquor store owner is stunned five men charged with murder have been found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter.

Anitilea Chan Kee (above right) is convicted of murdering liquor store owner Navtej Singh but friends are shocked by not guilty verdicts against five others.

The jury has retired to decide whether seven people are guilty of various charges in connection with the 2008 shooting of Navtej Singh.

The grieving parents of a young boy who died following an unexpectedly severe asthma attack have spoken publicly to warn other parents about the disease.

There has been an attempted abduction of two young girls from Hill Park school in Manurewa, in south Auckland, this morning.

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