Talking crises over coffee, the leaders of NZ, Australia and Canada convened at a Laotian café, seizing the opportunity to meet on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit.
The daughter of a woman killed in Christchurch says family and friends are struggling to understand how something so horrible could have happened to such a lovely person.
The IPCA has ruled a dog handler's decision to signal the driver of a stolen vehicle to stop just moments after it crashed into his dog van was justified.
A failure of both skippers to keep proper watch led to a "catastrophic" collision in the Bay of Islands which left one man with critical injuries and sank a historic ferry, a new report has found.
People living near a Canterbury car wrecking yard operating on rural land are fed up with what they say is ineffectual action by the district council to stop the business.
The man jailed for almost 13 years for killing RNZ journalist Phillip Cottrell has been released, despite still being high risk and disengaging with rehabilitation.
A high trust model in the firearms licensing process saw the man responsible for the Christchurch terror attack considered "fit and proper", an inquest has heard.
A private investigator searching the bush for Marokopa fugitive Tom Phillips says it remains challenging for police to locate him because he knows the terrain well and is being helped by people.