An employer who was ripped off by a worker who went on a $700,000 shopping spree is struggling to recover his money because nobody wants to buy the woman's flashy furniture and "tacky" jewellery.

From the moment a Rotorua man offered to help a friend steal nine tonnes of native logs, the foolhardy scheme was destined to fail.

A Crown prosecutor who admitted stealing almost $200 of groceries from a...

A UK shopkeeper who told a lottery winner he had won £10 when he had actually won £156,659 has been jailed.