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Dairy farmer Anthony James Lauren, 51, formerly of Kurow in North Otago, was today acquitted of six charges of ill-treating 341 cows and calves on Mt Belle Farm, which he was leasing in 2009.

The man charged with the murder of a Christchurch woman who was allegedly bashed with a garden ornament was back in court today.

A jury has been told to look at the bigger picture when deciding whether a man ran down a woman after snatching her handbag.

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research is defending their temperature recordings in the High Court at Auckland today after a dispute brought by a group which questions climate cha

An Auckland man accused of killing his flatmate is suffering a "psychotic relapse" and has been sent back to a secure mental health unit for more extensive tests.

A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a French woman while she was hitchhiking from Taupo to Napier has been jailed for eight and a-half years.