Police have seized the clifftop home belonging to a key player in a commercial cannabis ring that grew crops inside houses across Auckland.Jaak Roy Karu has now pleaded guilty to three charges of cannabis cultivation, one count...

Hamilton police were left scratching their heads this week after a burglar broke into his own mother's home, another walked into a police interview carrying stolen property and a third rang 111 to report he had accidentally been involved...

A fatal fire in the UK that killed six children from the same family was started deliberately by someone pouring a substantial amount of petrol through the letter box and lighting it, police said yesterday.At a brief, emotionally...

The chief coroner, Judge Neil MacLean, has expressed the frustration of all coroners when their recommendations are not taken up by governments and their agencies. He would like to see the law make it mandatory upon authorities to...

A convicted sex offender who used false documents to get jobs at schools will be sentenced in the Auckland District Court today.

A 16-year-old Invercargill girl faces 16 charges of offering to supply LSD after a drug operation in the city.

A Chinese millionaire on trial in the High Court at Auckland for fraud boasted to immigration officials that he had MP friends who would ensure he got citizenship.

A Southland teen recorded the highest breath alcohol level in New Zealand for a person under 20 last year, with southern police concerned the new zero alcohol limits are not working in the south.

Homicide victim Shane Braddick was farewelled at an emotional ceremony in Temuka yesterday.

A fisheries sting in Southland has resulted in one of the largest convictions the southern fisheries has seen and will hopefully serve as a deterrent for people abusing the fishing quota management systems, the Ministry for Primary Industry says.

Kara Hurring was never a "runaway millionaire" because her name never appeared on any of the accounts used to disperse the allegedly stolen $10 million, her defence says.

A former Christchurch nurse found guilty of sexually abusing residents at a mental health hospital has lost his bid for permanent name suppression.

A 16-year-old Invercargill boy admitted causing a three-car crash while driving drunk when he appeared in the Invercargill Youth Court yesterday.

An alleged flasher accused of exposing himself to females of all ages accused one woman of being a "peeping tom".

A Christchurch nurse was struck off the register for historical sexual abuse of mentally-disabled patients at a now-defunct hospital.