Rotorua police are planning a crackdown on illegal dirt bike riders, with a senior officer warning it may only a matter of time before someone is killed in the city.
A senior lawyer at a big law firm who grabbed a junior colleague’s penis at a Christmas party and made other lewd comments about people he worked with has been suspended for 15 months.
A high court jury has seen footage of murder-accused Julia DeLuney's video interview with police the day after her mother's death, where her story is first put under the microscope.
CCTV from outside a Wellington house where an elderly woman was found dead shows no one else parked outside or walked up the steps to the house after her daughter - who is accused of murdering her - says she left to get help.
A new project backed by film-maker Sir Peter Jackson aims to bring back the extinct South Island giant moa but an Otago zoology professor says any end result "will not, cannot be, a moa".