Christopher Duntsch, a Texas neurosurgeon with 17 years of training and experience under his belt now faces life in prison.

11 year old Renee Eager is about to undergo brain surgery in the US state of Texas, which surgeons hope will allieviate seizures and fits of rage caused by a rare tumour. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

With approvals granted, the fight for those against the Dakota Access pipeline shifts to the courts.

They are the serial killers you've never heard of - mutilators, torturers and body defilers who collectively murdered hundreds and are still alive. WARNING: GRAPHIC

President Donald Trump denounced arguments against his immigration order as "disgraceful".

A daycare has sent a strongly worded message to parents which has gone viral. Do you agree with the message?

Over a year the 27-year-old teacher paid more than $28k - unwittingly, to the 14-year-old she was sleeping with.

The inner strength of a little girl starved, beaten and imprisoned in a tiny urine-soaked closet amazed her rescuers.

A woman took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods - she still survived.

A teen and her three young brothers have been gassed to death by a lethal pesticide sprayed under their Texas home.

Explore these wilderness areas and you'll find a staggering variety of animal species.

The last anyone heard of Brandon Lawson was in a terrified 911 call as he fled from unknown attackers after his vehicle broke down on a Texas highway.

Cheeseburgers, steak and peanut butter cups formed some of the last meals of the 19 men killed on America's death row in 2016. WARNING: Disturbing content.

A high school teacher has been arrested after a Snapchat flirtation with a student led to beer pong, nude selfies and sex.

Te Awamutu woman has met the love of her life living 11,711km away in Texas while playing a mobile farming game.

Isidro Zarate intervened when he saw a man pulling a woman's hair and beating her in a Texas parking lot. The man did, but only to reach for his gun.

Two Texas students were reprimanded after they performed a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

A woman who killed her cheating millionaire husband in a road rage attack was sent thousands of taunting messages by his mistress.

If you've just been groped on a plane, but it's too late for the captain to kick the offending passenger off the flight, what would you do?

A lawyer who injured nine in a shooting rampage in Houston was wearing Nazi emblems and was carrying nearly 2600 rounds of ammunition in a Porsche.

A female shooter has injured a classmate before turning the gun on herself at a high school in Texas, according to local reports.

It's unanimous ... on Twitter: Dallas police chief David Brown should join the race to become the next president of the United States.

A Texas mum who shot and killed her two daughters posted a message on Facebook in March demanding the right to keep semiautomatic handguns.

Two people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio.

Torrential rains in Texas have deluged hundreds of homes, led to prison evacuations and killed at least 16 people in the past week, US officials say.

The arrest of a Kiwi online predator helped authorities in the US nab a child sex offender.

"Y'all not from round here, are ya? Ain't nobody drinks Buuuud. This is Shiner Bock country, sir."

Sweetwater, Texas, has a big annual event. The centrepiece is a bloody hunt: thousands of Western diamond rattlesnakes are caught, milked, and skinned.

Winston Aldworth flies aboard NZ28, the inaugural Auckland-to-Houston flight.