Stories by Anneke Smith

Police have described riding in an ambulance trying to get information from a woman who had been shot four times including in the head - and whose husband had been shot dead.

The Norwegian prison officials visited New Zealand to give advice for managing the man charged with murder over the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Ngatokoitu Tapora killed Jeremy Kaukasi and Taylor Charles King with a bus. The judge cried as the families read their victim impact statements and called their pain and loss "harrowing".

A 39-year-old man charged with attempted murder of a gang leader in East Auckland has pleaded not guilty.

Benny Haerewa was released from jail in 2010. Today he pleaded guilty to 11 violence and sexual violence charges committed between 2015 and 2017.

Police are yet to charge anyone with breaching name suppression of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane.

The Crown has opened its case against a man accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a Far North Māori Trust.

An Auckland man accused of killing a man over Easter has pleaded not guilty.

The trial of a prominent New Zealander accused of indecently assaulting two men will now be held in the High Court in Auckland.

Sweet shop chefs were so overworked they feared they would die, a court has heard.

A man who drunk drove and ran a red light, killing a taxi driver in central Auckland just days before Christmas in 2017, has pleaded guilty.

District and High Court judges have been ordering special reports on the backgrounds of mainly Māori and Pasifika offenders, apparently unaware the law did not allow them to.

An Ōtara man has admitted to murdering a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

A former high school teacher accused of doing indecent acts on boys has gone on trial in the High Court in Auckland.

Top military attache Alfred Keating has been found guilty of trying to film his colleagues on the toilet in New Zealand's US embassy.

A top military attache accused of planting a covert camera in a bathroom in New Zealand's US embassy is "absurdly unlucky" if innocent, the Crown says.

The trial of a top military attache has heard a covert camera - similar to the one later found in a bathroom - was purchased to catch a petty cash thief in the NZ embassy in Washington DC.

The jury has seen footage from a covert camera found in a toilet at the New Zealand Embassy in the US, in the trial of top military attache Alfred Harold Keating.

A top air force official spotted a little black box in a New Zealand Embassy toilet months before a covert camera was discovered.

The jury in the trial of New Zealand's former top Defence Force Attache has heard compelling scientific evidence this afternoon.

A driver who discovered a secret camera at New Zealand's embassy in the United States gave evidence at the Auckland District Court this morning.

The man charged with the murder of 50 people in the Christchurch mosque attacks will have two mental health reports carried out to assess his fitness to plead.

A teenager charged with distributing objectionable material after the Christchurch mosque attacks has been denied bail.

The High Court has confirmed the accused Christchurch gunman will not appear in person at his next court appearance.

A man who lost his father in the Christchurch massacre will attend the accused gunman's first appearance in the High Court on Friday.