After months in pain, Waikato girl recovers following rare German operation
Amelia in hospital. Maddy would lie awake listening to her moaning in pain. Photo / Supplied The likely…
Inflation hits 3% as consumers suffer largest power price spike since 1989
The largest contributors to the annual inflation rate were all in the housing and household utilities group. The…
Microchip leads to reunion for cat missing 11 months from Wellsford home
She said the person who “took her in” may not have known to check for a microchip. Willow…
NZTA mobile speed cameras in SUVs earn more than $900k in four months
These fines earned $928,960. NZTA said money from safety camera fines went into the Government Consolidated Fund, not…
Whangārei teen jailed for four years and six months over meth importation
Customs detected an anomaly while X-raying the package, which had been declared as clothing garments. Inside the box…
Education Ministry says some children have returned to school after truancy prosecution threat
Seymour says prosecutions will send a message to parents neglecting their legal duty. “Children who don’t attend school…
Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian shot dead in Sydney’s northwest
“You’d want to think that in a residential area that people could wander the streets at that time…
Auckland man sentenced to home detention for filming 62 women in secret
At his sentencing in Auckland District Court today, the man bowed his head and wept during the proceedings.…
Ohio man posed as teen for 16 months, pleads guilty after school ‘movie-like’ deception
Anna Krause had a teenage son who faced off against Labrador-Sierra in a football game last year. “It…
Man sentenced for possession of sexual exploitation material of children as young as 5 years old
Several electronic devices, containing sexual exploitation images of children as young as 5 years old, bestiality, and computer-generated…
Violent Bay of Plenty hostage-taker Jade Mellow gets an extra 15 months added to jail sentence
About 10pm that night, Mellow was parked in a car near Edgecumbe with a cut-down .22 calibre rifle,…
Fugitive Ayom Wek on run for 12 months in connection with $1.8m scam surrenders to Auckland police
The then 31-year-old was charged with 33 counts of money laundering and one of receiving stolen funds linked…