Mei Heron

A split second is all it took for a surgeon's mistake to end the life of 55 year old Christchurch woman Bonnie Schlef. Audio

An elderly man with a severe intellectual disability was accidentally strangled to death by loose electrical cords hanging under his bed. Coroner David Crerar has ruled it was a tragic unfortunate… Audio

A New Zealand lawyer who investigated corruption at FIFA says he was hamstrung by the organisation which denied him access to key evidence. Audio

The police have been criticised for waving a taser at a man for over eighteen minutes despite having already subdued and handcuffed him. Audio

A top swimming coach who lost his job after poor performances at the Commonwealth Games has now lost his legal fight over whether the dismissal was unjustified. Audio

A coroner is calling for a safety review of a stretch of road in the Wellington city centre which has one of the highest rate of pedestrian-vehicle accidents in the country. Audio

A midwife who told a teenage mother to keep her legs together and be more "ladylike" has been censured by the Human Rights Tribunal. Audio

The police say every effort was made to save a man who died during an altercation with officers. Audio

The deputy Health and Disability commissioner has censured a pharmacist for giving a woman the wrong medication causing her IVF treatment to be delayed Audio

A coroner has told a woman not to blame herself after she sent home a drunk man who turned up at her door in the middle of the night. Audio

Aviation representatives have met to discuss the growing unmanned aerial vehicle industry and how they can be integrated safely into the existing system. Audio

A new law, brought in just six weeks ago, is causing major backlogs at some district courts. Audio

Consumers and businesses will look to capitalise on the country's lowest petrol prices in more than four years. Audio

A police watchdog finding reveals a patrol car butted into a fleeing four wheel drive on Auckland's northern motorway in the middle of a weekday, endangering other drivers. Audio

A coroner has recommended Westpac rescue helicopters carry crotch straps after a drunken sailor fell from a harness 3 to 5 metres back into the sea. Audio

A woman has been awarded four-thousand-dollars after she was fired from her bartending job for objecting to a rape joke. Audio

A coroner has found there were significant delays in a police investigation into the death of a Lower Hutt teenage boy. Audio

A worker at the Bunnings DIY chain in Gisborne has been given 5-thousand-dollars compensation after being forced to sit in a cold warehouse. Audio

The person who killed a man with a single king-hit punch while he tried to help a woman in a bar fight, may never be found. Dale Bellaney, who was 39, died in Christchurch hospital in November 2012… Audio

A 40-year-old man has died at Lyttelton Port this afternoon after falling out of a scissor lift. Audio