News
Violent preventive detention prisoner faces 20-year milestone before next parole bid
7 Dec 2025
Matete, the first woman sentenced to preventive detention and now identifying as male, has been refused parole as risk assessments continue.
Crown looks to seize Mongrel Mob base where 'torturous' beatings took place
7 Dec 2025
Authorities are making legal moves to confiscate the gang pad in Mataura, Southland.
Call for ban as 20th person drowns at notorious fishing spot
3 Dec 2025
Olson Canatoy and Eric Dabalos had been warned about the dangers of Papanui Point.
Woman ends up in wheelchair after surgery goes wrong
28 Nov 2025
And an earlier mix-up had led to her sister being prepared for surgery as well.
'It got me': Diver's last words before drowning
27 Nov 2025
Aaron Matthews came up gasping and struggling to breathe on a beach.
Hawke's Bay director jailed 14 years for exploiting, raping workers
11 Nov 2025
The director of a labour supply company for the horticultural industry, raped two vulnerable foreign workers after manipulating and "trapping" one of them, and drugging the other.