Stories by Katie Scotcher

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.

Many children in state care were shocked with electricity, kept in cells, and beaten with bits of rubber in the 1970s, the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has been told.

Career criminal Arthur Taylor has told the Royal Commission investigating abuse he never would have messed with the law if he hadn't been placed in state care.

Survivors of abuse in state care have shared harrowing details of the harm they suffered by those who were supposed to be looking after them.

Over the next fortnight, the inquiry investigating abuse in both state and faith-based care will hear evidence from abuse survivors, advocates, academics and lawyers.

An inquest has been told the police failed to tell a doctor a young man had hit his head more than two hundred times against the walls and floor of a police cell he later died in.

South Auckland police officers are reluctant to take injured prisoners to Middlemore Hospital as they are often turned away, an inquest has heard.

A lack of detox centres meant a young man was held in a South Auckland police cell which he'd later die in, an inquest has heard.

The Greater Wellington Regional Council scrambled to remove ads promoting a career in bus driving after it discovered a string of racist tweets by one of its poster boys.

The country's mayors have made more trips to China in recent years than they have to all other countries combined.