Blaze forcing Wānaka evacuations being treated as suspicious
A large vegetation fire that forced more than 20 homes in Wānaka to be evacuated over the weekend…
Wife ‘had enough’ before butchering and binning husband in Sydney
A woman says her life was in danger when she stabbed her husband, dismembered his body and disposed…
Cooks fisherman finds millions of dollars of cocaine washed ashore
A fisherman from a remote island in the Cook Islands says he feared for his life after a…
Coromandel man jailed for importing ‘child-like sex doll’
A Coromandel man who tried to import a “child-like sex doll” has been jailed for two and a…
Religious leader and wife jailed over Gulf Harbour kidnap, killing
The leader of a fringe religious group Kaixiao Liu has been sentenced to 10 years and five months…
Luxury real estate firm investigating cyber security attack
Luxury real estate firm New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty is investigating a cyber security incident involving unauthorised access…
Couple charged – home, drift car seized after Hawke’s Bay drug raids
A home, a drift car and a motorbike are among the $700,000 in assets seized by police an…
‘One of the largest’: Vietnamese cannabis syndicate shut down
An alleged Vietnamese cannabis syndicate in Auckland has been shut down, with 12 people being arrested. Police described…
Man arrested after alleged assaults in Flaxmere
A man has been arrested after two alleged assaults in Hawke’s Bay left one in a critical condition…
Ex US deputy convicted of killing woman in her home dies in prison
Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a…
Man jailed after attempt to smuggle meth in stock pot
A man has been jailed after attempting to smuggle nearly 4kgs of methamphetamine inside a stock pot through…
Man dies after Auckland stabbing, homicide probe launched
A homicide investigation has been launched after a man stabbed in the Auckland suburb of Blockhouse Bay on…