A Dunedin nurse has been ordered to pay $10,000 and has had his licence suspended for three years after he entered into a sexual relationship with one of his "vulnerable'' patients.
The Wanganui District Council has taken its first legal step in its bid to keep serial sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson out of its region when he is paroled next week.
Two Wellington accountants will spend up to eight years in prison after being sentenced for a tax scheme which saw them personally gain up to $2.3 million over five years.
The bodies of two New Zealand soldiers killed in a gun battle in Afghanistan at the weekend will arrive in Christchurch tonight.
The parents of the New Zealand triplets killed in a Doha mall fire in May have said they won't stand for the owners of the complex celebrating the reopening of the centre this week, calling it "the equivalent of sweeping a crime under the rug".
The sleeping arrangements of a six-week-old infant were dangerous, but a coroner has been unable to pinpoint exactly what caused her death.
At least one woman who was wrongly operated on after a botch-up in reporting pathology results has not received an apology, and others were told of the mistake over the phone "quite some time" later, a panel of experts looking into the mix-ups has found.
A woman who was filmed showering by her partner's friend can be awarded damages, a judge has ruled in a New Zealand legal first.
More children have come forward with complaints against a teacher who this week admitted 49 charges of sexually abusing pupils of a school in the Far North, the school's commissioner says.
A Powershop advertisement which showed a zombie being impaled in the head by a screwdriver was amended after complaints about its "sickening" nature.
A carpentry company has been fined $5000 for failing to report that one of its workers fell almost three metres from a roof, leaving him permanently paralysed.
Feilding farmer Ewen Macdonald, who earlier this month was found not guilty of murdering his brother-in-law Scott Guy, has briefly appeared in the Palmerston North District Court this afternoon on other serious charges.
The ongoing impact of the Christchurch earthquake on the city's university has resulted in 150 jobs going over the next three years.
Two men spent about 15 minutes in the water in Fiordland this evening before other boaties came to their rescue.
A man has been crushed to death by a digger after it rolled on a Wellington street this afternoon.
The New Zealand craft beer market is booming and showing no signs of slowing down - just ask one man who has tasted at least 500 different New Zealand beers since 2009.
Spring could be warmer than usual for much of the country - music to farmers' ears but not to those planning on hitting the ski slopes.
Prime Minister John Key has announced how the Government plans to put New Zealanders "at the front of the queue" for buying Mighty River Power shares in the upcoming share float, including bonus shares for long-term investors.
The central North Island is bracing for flooding as the torrential rain hammering the central plateau shows no sign of easing.
Close colleagues of a Chilean man who was seriously injured when four of his friends died in a collision last night are maintaining a vigil at hospital.
