Court

A Marton man has admitted robbing two Manawatu banks while dressed as a woman.

The owners of three south Auckland properties have been fined $33,000 for building illegal sleepouts, the Manukau City Council says.

A failed finance company's directors are facing charges - and up to five years in prison - for statements made in their prospectuses.

A Christchurch man acquitted last year of murdering his niece was back in court today to witness the Crown appealing the verdict.

A 29-year-old Wanganui man will appear in court later today following a stabbing in the Rangitikei town of Marton yesterday.

A Nelson stripper has admitted trying to extort $3000 from a married American man in exchange for her keeping silent about their trysts.

The Powdergate dairy scandal is set to resurface again when one of the men charged - but not convicted - in the case sues Fonterra in the Employment Court.

After a day of hearing legal argument, Justice John Fogarty has reserved his decision on the dispute over the burial of a Tuhoe Maori whose body and casket were whisked from Christchurch by his wha

Former MP Taito Phillip Field admitted today he could have been more open to an inquiry ordered by then Prime Minister Helen Clark into his conduct.

IHC has taken responsibility for the death of intellectually disabled man Lewis Munro, 51, who went missing in dense bush near Te Kuiti in 2007.