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A teenager who helped her boyfriend escape from prison has avoided ending up there herself.

The man at the centre of an Auckland motorway drama which saw a courier driver shot and killed by police admitted nearly two dozen charges in court today.

A 16-year-old girl accused of robbing a Wanganui dairy at knife-point has been remanded in custody.

Police and family were seen as "obstacles" for taking the body of James Takamore from Christchurch to his Tuhoe homeland of Bay of Plenty for burial.

Two Auckland teenagers have appeared in court in Australia accused of murdering a man during a "robbery gone wrong".

An aquaculture company has pleaded guilty to four charges brought by Maritime New Zealand following a fatal boat accident in the Marlborough Sounds last year.

Former MP Taito Phillip Field has insisted he told a woman to tell the truth to a government-ordered inquiry into work done on his houses by Thai people seeking immigration help.

Two men charged with attempted murder following a shooting in the eastern Bay of Plenty were remanded in custody when they appeared in court today.

A father charged with the manslaughter of his four-year-old son, after he allegedly drove into the path of a freight train in south Auckland, told a court today he was "distracted".

A Christchurch widow was subjected to a "cultural raid" by her husband's Maori family, who took his body away for burial in the North Island, says the woman's lawyer.