Court

The man at the centre of police pursuit which led to an innocent man being shot dead is due to be sentenced in the High Court in Auckland this afternoon.

A man charged with trying to set fire to Prime Minister John Key's electorate office northwest of Auckland has been denied bail.

The man responsible for more than $600,000 worth of arson and burglary damage in Palmerston North has been jailed for six years.

Notorious fugitive "Billy the Hunted One" has been remanded without plea for the seventh time.

Three off-duty police officers facing assault charges after an alleged attack on two students in the lobby of an apartment building appeared in court today.

A Christchurch man tried to make a girl believe she was partly to blame for his sex offending against her.

She was aged five when five years of abuse began.

A Christchurch teenager has been jailed for three years and three months for his involvement in a central city shooting incident.

A judge has jailed a man he described as "an appallingly bad father" for two years and nine months for assaulting and neglecting his children.

Three teenagers accused of being involved in an alleged illegal street race crash which resulted in a teenage girl having part of her leg amputated have appeared in North Shore District Court.