Builder admits murdering wife
A Tauranga builder accused of murdering his wife has pleaded guilty in the High Court at Rotorua this morning.
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Teen dismembered, court hears
High Court sets aside disturbed riverbed finding
A Middlemarch farmer's two convictions have been set aside by the High Court, which found he did not disturb a riverbed, as the Otago Regional Council maintained.
Arsonist denied parole
A woman who torched a Dunedin home more than five years ago, forcing two people to flee for their lives, has been declined parole.
Abduction accused lose name suppression
Name suppression has been lifted for a man and woman who are believed to have been with 18-year old Jovaan Graham, who was found dead outside Pohlen Hospital in Matamata early on Wednesday mornin
Mining company admits work safety breach
East Otago mining company Oceana Gold has admitted liability for an accident in which an employee lost a finger while working in the company's underground mine at Macraes Flat last July.
Dunedin man charged with attempted murder
A 34-year-old Dunedin man has been charged with attempted murder following an incident at a Mornington house on Wednesday night.
Guilty plea over horror crash
A man has pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter stemming from a horror crash in 2011.
Contact with children breach means prison
The defendant accepted the sentence had to be imprisonment.
Man ignored warning on behaviour
A German student has been fined for urinating in public in central Queenstown, only minutes after police warned him about similar behaviour.