Stories by Katie Scotcher

Volunteers are using 3D printers to make tens of thousands of face shields for health workers helping in the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis across the country.

New Zealanders abroad scrambling to return home will still be able to enter the country after it goes into nationwide self-isolation tomorrow at midnight.

A man who deliberately lit fires in tinder-dry Tasman last year initially posed as a frightened resident who was forced to evacuate his home.

New Zealanders stranded overseas say government intervention is their "only hope" of returning home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Harry Tam, the controversial Mongrel Mob member who was a senior official at the Royal Commission into historical abuse in care, has quietly left the inquiry.

The man accused of the Christchurch mosque shootings will be one of the first to see draft sections of the report compiled by the royal commission investigating the attacks.

Some pharmacies still use fax machines daily, but have been given until the end of the year to throw them out.

Life goes on for some in Whakatāne in the days after Whakaari erupted. But grief lingers in the air, and it manifests itself in different ways for the people affected.

A young woman who helped rescue critically injured tourists from the island says they were screaming and asking if they were going to die. Video

One of the people missing on Whakaari / White Island started working as a tour guide on the island just months ago, and his friend says it's gut-wrenching knowing he's still out there.

A former top rugby player plans to donate his brain to science when he dies to help researchers discover how concussions and repeated injuries affect the human brain in sport.

The driver of a truck that collided with a campervan and killed two Spanish tourists almost a decade ago says he will fight until his side of the story is believed.

An engineer who inspected a truck after it smashed into a campervan, killing two Spanish tourists, says there was no evidence of any major mechanical faults.

The driver of a truck that slammed into a campervan killing two tourists a decade ago has accused the police of washing away evidence that would prove a mechanical fault caused the crash.

Licensed firearms owners are calling on the government to delay any further proposed changes to gun legistation.

A man who was described as ugly and nasty by a National Party MP on social media says he expects the message was intended for someone else.

A man who assaulted two teenage boys at a Young Labour summer camp has been discharged without conviction.

High-ranking Mongrel Mob member Greg Molony has requested a meeting with National leader Simon Bridges to discuss his plans to crack down on gangs. Audio

Police have warned one person and two others are under investigation for naming Grace Millane's killer on social media during his High Court trial.

After two weeks of deeply personal tales at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care hearing, common threads began to emerge, Katie Scotcher writes.

A woman has told the historic abuse inquiry she was sexually assaulted by a nun and repeatedly raped by foster parents.

A woman has told the Royal Commission investigating abuse in care she was moved between at least a dozen care homes and raped multiple times - all before she turned 16.

The Royal Commission investigating abuse in care has heard a former gang member didn't know how to love because of the time he spent as a child of the state.

The Royal Commission investigating abuse in care has heard disabled people in care between the 1950s and 1990s were regularly restrained, neglected and unloved.

The National Party has been accused of being selective of the crimes it cracks down on at the Royal Commission investigating historic abuse in care's public hearing.