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A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman at her Mt Pleasant home in Christchurch.

The man and woman were taken into police custody on Thursday.

Work has not begun on seismic repairs to the Nelson courthouse, more than six weeks after it closed.

Six young people absconded from the community remand homes in two separate, unrelated incidents on 8 April.

Inspectors found 25 sheep and several newborn lambs recently dead on the Tararua property.

A budding friendship born behind bars appears to have gone awry once three inmates were released and one ended up with a shotgun being pointed in his face while he was robbed by the other two.

Former Northland teacher James Robertson Parker was convicted in 2013 of 74 charges.

Le Pen has been convicted of embezzling EU funds, and faces a sentence that will prevent her from standing in the next presidential election unless she can get the ruling overturned within 18 months.

A man battling terminal cancer was beaten with a patu outside his Te Aroha home six months before he died. The victim, whose name is suppressed, was heartbroken at having...

Mathew Watkins certifying gasfitter licence was suspended and he has been ordered to pay $8900 towards disciplinary costs.

A Mexican drug dealer who entered New Zealand on a tourist visa got less than two months to see the sights before he found himself looking at the walls of a prison cell.

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering his mother in November, in Blenheim.

The girl had been diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a form of cancer that develops in the bone marrow.

During questioning, Nic Hill reversed the dynamics of the conflict.

The man has been remanded on bail.

Joseph Blackbourn once represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.

After a back surgery that ended his career, Jake Gleeson brought a claim against his ex-team doctor.

The brothers alleged the realtors had worked together to make the new buyer profit.