Horrified staff at the Island Bay Marine Education Centre in Wellington arrived to find around 80 fish dead or dying after a toxic detergent was deliberately added to the water system.

New Zealand's biggest high school has been hit by $20,000 worth of damage after embarrassing images of giant male genitals were burned into the playing fields.

A handsaw attack on the limb of a pohutukawa tree obstructing a roadside walkway in Piha has ended a long, costly and spirited battle.

Police and fire investigators suspect a blaze that ripped through a historic homestead in East Auckland at the weekend was deliberately lit.

Squashed food, litter and even human faeces were found onboard the TSS Earnslaw by crew.

Jury should have known of calf slaughter, says silenced worker.

Slain farmer Scott Guy drunkenly told his sister that Ewen Macdonald was the worst thing that had happened to their family.