Court

A 40-year-old Gisborne woman was arrested last night and charged with stabbing her partner three times in the back.

A Japanese teacher's upskirt photograph of a fellow tourist on a windy day in Greymouth has led to a holiday nightmare and a $500 payment - but no criminal conviction.

A Katikati man whose drunk driving killed a woman is likely to go to prison, a judge warned today.

A man accused of being involved in pushing a patient off a patio at Christchurch's Hillmorton Psychiatric Hospital leaving him paralysed had the charge dismissed today.

More than 12 people are facing charges over an alleged drug ring centred around Auckland's maximum security Prison at Paremoremo which has reportedly made at least one prisoner a millionaire.

A teenager has been charged with assault after a woman was thrown off a river bridge in central Nelson "to teach her a lesson", police say.

A man appeared in court today charged with firing a shotgun and aggravated robbery yesterday at Tokoroa in south Waikato.

Name suppression has been lifted for the man accused of murdering 16-month-old Riley Justin Osborne, in Northland last week.

He is Kyle Robert Skerten, 21, of Kerikeri.

A drunk man wielding a samurai sword rampaged down a street in Feilding attacking and abusing residents.

A Bay of Plenty man was jailed today after having used his 15-year-old girlfriend to earn money for the pair working as a prostitute.