The Prime Minister says he doesn't have a problem with the media, despite his comments today that the press had become more hostile towards his Government in its second term.
A man who suffered huge financial loss as a result of a carjacker's methamphetamine-fuelled rampage doesn't want reparation, he just wants him to be a better man, a court has been told.
A school rugby team from Taranaki has been disciplined for a post-match brawl with a team that thrashed them 123-0. Waitara High principal Jenny Gellen said the whole of his school's under-15...
A jetboat operator has been ordered to pay $270,000 for taking tourists on sightseeing boat trips which resulted in three passengers breaking their backs.
A transport operator is defending his decision to take 16 inexperienced trampers to do the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in poor weather, resulting in some in the group getting suspected hypothermia.
The Flight of the Conchords are off to Australia - to apologise. They say they are sorry for mocking the Ockers for all these years in their hit television show.
A man who beat his father unconscious and then stabbed him in the eye with a boning knife has had his sentence reduced by one year.
The Ports of Auckland is responsible for leaking personal information, including details of bereavement leave, about an employee, the Council of Trade Unions claims.
A drunk driver who ploughed into two girls as they walked along a south Auckland street and then tried to flee the scene has pleaded guilty.
A former police officer left paralysed when a repeat offender stabbed him is applauding the Government's plan to make it possible to hold high-risk criminals in prison for longer than their sentences.
Tame Iti says he and others accused of taking part in military-style training camps in the Urewera Ranges never had a plan and that the police and Crown "created this madness''.
Firefighters were faced with a potentially highly-hazardous situation when they received reports of people inside a fiercely burning apartment in west Auckland this morning, only to find suspected methamphetamine paraphernalia.
A two-year mystery may have been solved with the discovery of a body in Christchurch's Port Hills.
A nightclubber who left a man with irreparable brain damage after punching him in central Auckland last June has been sentenced to one year imprisonment.
The brother of a woman murdered by her estranged husband has made an emotional plea for the killer to reveal where her body is following his release from prison today.
Police are praising the actions of three cafe workers who pulled a burning man from an inferno in a Hastings public toilet this morning.
A man has been arrested after seven Greenpeace protesters, including Hollywood star Lucy Lawless, clambered on to an Arctic-bound oil drilling vessel and scaled its 53-metre tower at Port Taranaki this morning.
Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom is "very relieved" to be released on bail so he can be reunited with his family, his lawyer says.
A woman who witnessed a teenage window cleaner plummet four stories in Auckland yesterday afternoon is struggling to come to terms with what she saw.
A woman who witnessed a teenage window cleaner plummet four storeys in Auckland this afternoon is struggling to come to terms with what she saw.
