Court

The trial of a Queenstown river boarding company and its director over the death of a 21-year-old English tourist is expected to conclude early next week.

Disused Canterbury school buildings were used for an $87,500-a-year cannabis growing operation, a court was told today.

A Kurdish refugee was today jailed for two years for threatening to kill his wife.

Construction giant McConnell Dowell has admitted endangering the safety of employees working on an ocean sewage project during a storm which claimed two lives.

A 16-year-old boy has admitted slashing a man's hand - leaving it dangling by skin and tendons - after a confrontation between rival groups at a Palmerston North house.

A broadcaster and DJ has been jailed for four years for fleecing an 88-year-old widow of almost $250,000.

Three men accused of slaughtering 32 birds at an aviary were further remanded on bail after they appeared in Timaru District Court today.

A jury has sentenced a Texas mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals to 99 years in prison.