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A 16-year-old boy was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 15-1/2 years for murdering a taxi driver.

It was "not inconceivable" two Mexican kitchen-hands arrested in Queenstown on assault and injuring charges would be sent to jail, Judge Dominic Flatley said in the Queenstown District Court yester

An Auckland schoolteacher coaxed and groomed a primary school student into a close relationship before committing sex offences against him, a jury was told today.

"A random act of gross recklessness" was how Judge Stephen O'Driscoll yesterday described the actions of a young woman who threw herself in front of a truck in Oamaru last year.

Directors of various failed Blue Chip businesses could be chased for the financial collapse.

A young man who stole a breath-testing device, which was dropped by a police constable as the officer was allegedly being assaulted, was sentenced to 75 hours' community work when he appeared in th

A man jailed in 2007 for murdering German backpacker Birgit Brauer has lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence.

A man who committed 14 burglaries and 14 thefts at Dunedin Hospital, while working there as a security guard and a records clerk, has been sentenced to eight months' home detention.

An Interpol investigation into the downloading of child-abuse images on to a Croatian astronomy group's website led to the appearance of a 51-year-old Otago man in the Dunedin District Court yester

The daughter of an 81-year-old murder victim told a court today his brutal killing has brought her family enormous heartache and pain.