Court

An 18-year-old woman broke down briefly as she told a jury she had not intended to kill retired Opotiki school teacher John Rowe, only to knock him out so she could look around his bedroom for item

The families of slain Bay of Plenty school principal and regional councillor Hawea Vercoe and the man accused of his murder exchanged obscenities in Whakatane District Court today and had to be res

Police have charged a 26-year-old man with the murder of a Hamilton East man, who died early yesterday.

Police today named the victim as Jaycee Dallas Van Der Drift, 28.

A South African singer living in New Zealand, Jurie Els, will ask a court in Pretoria on Monday to discharge him on three charges of molesting a boy.

A Kaitaia woman charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter in August has been remanded in custody to appear in the Whangarei High Court for callover on February 11 next year.

An unemployed teenager has been charged with the murder of Kaitaia woman Barbara Julian, 70, who was found dead in her house on November 4 after what Far North police said had been a brutal home in

The mother of an Invercargill morphine addict was sentenced to home detention today after admitting her unwitting involvement in a drug heist during a family holiday.

Dunedin businessman Robin Sew Hoy was sentenced to 10 months home detention and ordered to pay back $325,000, as per an agreement with the Otago District Health Board, in the High Court at Dunedi

A man who allegedly gambled away money that churchgoers thought they had donated for his medical treatment was back in court again today.