Support for Labour leader Chris Hipkins has taken a big dive in a new poll that shows small gains for National and Labour, and mostly small losses for minor parties.
A 71-year-old Triad assassin who shot a man outside a karaoke bar in central Auckland is still considered to be too much of a risk to the public to be released from prison.
The fiancé of a man accused of strangling two women has told a court of her own experience of being strangled for sexual pleasure, describing a sensation of euphoria.
Police are investigating the disappearance of more than a dozen dogs in a saga with complicated plot twists involving the SPCA, an animal rescue charity and a breeder.
A woman died in hospital from a tear in her main artery two days after being sent home from an emergency department with indigestion medication, the Aged Care Commissioner has found.