Three young men say they did everything they could to help Rosemary Ives...

A prison guard has been arrested and charged with smuggling drugs to Mongrel Mob inmates.

A 23-year-old man, charged with assaulting a police officer near Turangi yesterday, was granted interim name suppression this afternoon.

One person is dead after a truck and trailer unit rolled north of Waiouru in the central North Island late last night.

A hunter who fatally shot school teacher Rosemary Ives has admitted her manslaughter.

A manslaughter charge has been laid against the man who shot and killed 25-year-old schoolteacher Rosemary Ives last month.

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Anger is growing among hunters over the accidental shooting of a tramper as she was brushing her teeth.

Fellow hunters have expressed "disgust" at the actions of a man who shot dead a woman after he mistook her for a animal.

A young woman was shot in the head and killed - while she was brushing her teeth - by a hunter who thought she was an animal.

A Hamilton man will appear on court on a firearm charge after the death of a woman near Taupo last night.