Crime

The individual would frequently travel to Samoa to recruit people to their painting business.

Police have arrested a 13 and 14-year-old.

Leader says government intervention is needed and has organised a meeting with Police Minister Mark Mitchell. Audio

Le Pen has been convicted of embezzling EU funds, and faces a sentence that will prevent her from standing in the next presidential election unless she can get the ruling overturned within 18 months.

The 32-year-old weighed just 31kg, when he set fire to the home he says was his prison.

A man battling terminal cancer was beaten with a patu outside his Te Aroha home six months before he died. The victim, whose name is suppressed, was heartbroken at having...

Mathew Watkins certifying gasfitter licence was suspended and he has been ordered to pay $8900 towards disciplinary costs.

A Mexican drug dealer who entered New Zealand on a tourist visa got less than two months to see the sights before he found himself looking at the walls of a prison cell.

A lawyer punched and kicked in a public waiting area by a teen appearing in the Youth Court was previously threatened by him at a different courthouse.

As a courier driver stopped to sort his parcels, a gang member advanced on him, holding a screwdriver to his neck and kidnapping him.

Shortcomings in the current 111 and secondary systems were highlighted by a 2022 Kaikōura boating accident.

A man who broke into 23 homes, stole three vehicles and went joyriding in others is facing a lengthy prison term.

Despite medical attention, the victim died at the scene.

Emergency services were called to a house on Neill Street in the suburb of Green Island about 3.50am on Saturday.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been hit with an expanded federal indictment, charging the hip-hop mogul with more counts of racketeering and sex trafficking.

The rodeo pioneer won the buckle in 1959 and is still competing at age 94.

The country needs an entirely new set of laws to manage high-risk offenders safely and more humanely, the Law Commission says.

Victoria Sabrina Kalapa was charged with aiding or abetting a company she controlled to make PAYE deductions which were not paid to Inland Revenue.

Matthew Kelly was originally sent to prison in 2016 after he was found with objectionable material on his cellphone and laptop.