Court

The man accused of a knife attack which killed "good samaritan" Austin Hemmings in Auckland last year, will stand trial for murder.

A Nelson police officer is to stand trial after allegedly pepperspraying a cyclist who was not wearing a helmet and ramming him with his police car.

A second teenager has pleaded guilty to the rape and aggravated robbery of a female Asian tourist in Opotiki.

Rehabilitation sentences that will keep them in the community were today granted to two Dunedin women arrested for a significant commercial cannabis sales scheme.

Two Wellington brothel keepers "broke in" a 14-year-old girl, kept her high on drugs and put her to work in their central city escort agency, a court has been told.

Denis Kenny Billesdon has been acquitted of murdering his elderly sister eight years ago.

A father charged with killing his four-year-old son, after allegedly driving his car into the path of a freight train in south Auckland, will wait nearly a year to go on trial.

A Timaru man, Ashley Jordan Moffat, has lost an appeal against his manslaughter conviction.