Protective headgear issued to mental health staff after patient assaults Dunedin nurse.

Investigation found a female officer failed to maintain boundaries with a male prisoner.

"It seems like something happened in the driveway, we can see some tarpaulin down there."

"If I have a guardian angel, it is probably taking a well-deserved break now."

The death of a woman following a reported house party is being treated as a homicide.

Jailed man advertised his former girlfriend as "for sale" for $1 and tagged her by name.

A Queenstown company has been charged by WorkSafe New Zealand.

When 28 firearms and 22,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen, police had to act quickly.

Make the most of today because the weather's set to pack in again tomorrow.

We may be saying goodbye to winter - for a few days at least.

A youth prisoner assaulted two staff on a domestic transfer flight.

A second South Canterbury dairy farm has tested positive for Mycoplasma bovis

The meat processor will review its unprofitable beef plant in Gore.

Investigators will start tracking the movement of cows on the Morven farm.

A paedophile priest's pic has been removed from the wall at Dunedin's Kavanagh College.

Early risers were met with frost, fog and icy windscreens this morning.

South Canterbury farm at the centre of the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis has been named.

It is the third one to cause problems.

Gerry Brownlee's challenger in Ilam says it would kickstart the city's regeneration.

Bromfield School in Amberley keeping kids inside at the request of police.

Accident investigators discovered helicopter pilot had been briefed on 'flying standards'.

Selling your vehicle in Christchurch on the side of the road could soon be illegal.

Woman insists $1.5 million pledge to sick teen is not bogus.

Man accused of attacking someone with a ratchet avoids jail because of police mistake.

Helicopters are being used to muster Kaikoura seals away from quake-repair zones.

Tekapo has been cut off to traffic as snow and ice close a number of South Island roads.

Clean up yet to begin for some South Island residents as water levels yet to recede.

People are using Facebook to rip-off unsuspecting consumers, police say.

A man who "lost his rag" at a WINZ office has pleaded guilty for "speaking threateningly".

Below the surface of New Zealand's glowing job growth statistics lies a darker world.