Crime

A survivor of Lake Alice tracked down the former head of the psychiatric hospital, Dr Selwyn Leeks, and confronted him about the abuse he had endured as a child. Audio

Vengeful liars who want to destroy him - that's Arthur Allan Thomas' lawyer's line to jurors set to decide his fate, over rape allegations.

But the Crown says the recollections of five people are… Audio

A psychiatrist who worked in New Zealand in the 1970s says many people employed at psychiatric hospitals back then often had no relevant qualifications.

David Baron's given evidence to the inquiry… Audio

It's five weeks since the ransomware attack on the Waikato DHB crippled its systems and forced a massive overhaul of its operations.

While services have gradually resumed, some IT systems are still… Audio

You've probably heard of illicit hooch being brewed up in prisons but what about unlawful yoghurt?

From secretive beginnings in a cell in Rangipo Prison, two inmates got so good at making the dairy… Audio

Now to a story about how a group of prisoners went from making methamphetamine to making yoghurt, turning it into a commodity so popular that it was smuggled between prisons. In 2013 best friends and… Audio

Two inmates swap making meth for making yoghurt, and turn their product into a prison trading commodity so popular that yoghurt culture is smuggled between prisons.  

Whānau are being urged to report whoever is behind a spree of gang related shootings in Wairoa, with police saying a line's been crossed and children put in serious danger.

Extra officers have been… Video, Audio

A criminologist is concerned about the discrepancies in the official accounts of how the police ended up shooting a man dead. 35-year-old Shargin Stephens was killed in 2016 after he smashed up an… Audio

Staff members from Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital have spoken of being too scared to report ill-treatment of patients in the child and adolescent unit in the 1970s.

Survivors have told the inquiry… Audio

The official version of how police came to shoot a Māori man in Rotorua is contradicted by the police's own investigation of the shooting. 

Shargin Stephens was shot and killed in 2016 after smashing… Audio

The first of those charged over a fatal stabbing in Blenheim will appear in the Blenheim District Court today.

Ten people have been arrested so far after an altercation which left one person dead and… Audio