Kurt Bayer

Convicted livestock killer Ewen Macdonald has a second chance at securing his liberty next week.

A Christchurch police officer told a suspected drink driver that any charges would go away if she performed oral sex on him, a court heard today.

A new privately-funded search for the missing yacht Nina is taking off this morning.

Old soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder with serving troops this morning to commemorate Armistice Day on the 95th anniversary of the end of World War I.

The skier who witnessed his fellow adventurer, compatriot, and "great friend" plunge 600m to his death near the summit of Aoraki-Mt Cook has given a first, harrowing account of what happened.

The family of an outdoor adventurer who fell 300m down a South Island glacier are worried as she has yet to recover consciousness after Sunday's accident.

Work to recover the 29 miners whose bodies are entombed in the Pike River coalmine begins this weekend.

New Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel has wasted no time in calling for an independent audit of the crippled city's books.

Dedicated dad Craig Brook suffered 7,000 screaming, swooning One Direction fans last night as the noise in the CBS Canterbury Arena approached jet-plane engine levels.

The instructor in yesterday's helicopter training crash has been praised for his quick actions in averting a double fatality.

A convicted sex offender who sexually assaulted a young woman at knifepoint in a Dunedin park while on parole has appealed what he calls a "manifestly excessive" open-ended preventive sentence.

Poor leadership and a "risk-tolerant culture" has been uncovered at the New Zealand Defence Force by an independent probe that has today made 20 urgent recommendations to overhaul its lax health and safety policies.

A Christchurch bar has sparked outrage after it installed cameras in its toilets in a bid to catch vandals and increase security.

A Dunedin schoolboy who suffered a serious head injury during a first XV rugby match is due to be brought out of his induced coma today.

The Defence Force shoulders a high level of blame for the death of Private Michael Ross, who drowned when he fell out of a boat during a training exercise last year, a judge has found.

The 3-week-old baby left fighting for its life after a violent incident at her Invercargill home on Monday was so badly injured that a policeman had to drive the ambulance to hospital.

It is likely a landslide in the Haast Pass hurled the campervan that missing Canadian tourists Connor Hayes and Joanna Lam were travelling in last Tuesday into the raging and flooded Haast River.

A Canadian hospital has launched a campaign to bring home the body of a former employee who was killed in a campervan crash in New Zealand.