Delay in sentencing of Ministry of Social Development
There's been a delay in the sentencing of the Ministry of Social Development for failing to take all practicable steps to protect staff before the Ashburton shooting. The Ministry was being sentenced...
View Article16-year-old arrested after five arsons
A 16-year-old male has been arrested after five arsons in Hastings. Detective Sergeant Sally Patrick said fires were lit in skip bins behind retail premises last Monday night. Police officers who were...
View ArticleBakery ordered to pay 65k after workplace incident
A Taranaki bakery company has been heavily fined for a workplace incident that left a staff member seriously injured. Yarrows Bakery in Manaia was ordered to pay 65-thousand dollars in reparations and...
View Article91-year-old woman assaulted in Auckland home invasion
UPDATED 6.43PM Police are searching for the culprits of a broad daylight attack on a 91-year-old Auckland woman. The attack occurred when the elderly lady returned to her Mt Wellington address from...
View ArticleSuspicious CHCH car fires may be linked
Six suspicious car fires in Christchurch are thought be linked. Fire and police staff were at the scene of six blazes from just before 10 o'clock last night to 3 o'clock this morning. Fire Service...
View ArticleTaranaki man sentenced for 35 sex charges spanning 20 years
A Taranaki man has been sentenced to preventive detention for historic sex charges, in the High Court at New Plymouth today. Nigel Nelson was found guilty of 35 different sex charges, including rape...
View ArticleDairy farmer fined for abuse of 200 cows
A West Coast dairy farmer has been fined $15,000 for breaking two cows' tails and failing to treate the broken tails of 210 cows. Warren Arthur McNabb was today sentenced in the Nelson District Court...
View ArticleSentencing for murder of stop-go worker
UPDATED 1.21PM The family of convicted murderer Quinton Winders maintain he has been framed by police and they will fight to clear his name. Winders, 46, was on Friday jailed for at least 17 years for...
View ArticleOnline fears don't deter Christmas shoppers
Concerns about having credit card or personal details stolen will not deter around 40 per cent of Kiwis doing their shopping online this Christmas. Research from cybersecurity firm Norton reveals...
View ArticleKiwiRail faulted over Raurimu accident
KiwiRail's failure to following standard safety procedures led to an accident on the Raurimu Spiral where a freight train ploughed into an excavator on the tracks, badly hurting its driver, an...
View ArticleActor's sex charge trial called off
The trial of a Kiwi actor accused of sex crimes against several of his acting students has been called off. The man, who cannot be named, has been standing trial over two charges of sexual violation...
View ArticleGuilty verdicts over $1m council bribery
A senior Auckland Transport manager who took more than $1 million in payments from a contractor has been found guilty of bribery charges. And the business owner who paid him has also been convicted....
View ArticleSentence reduced for dance party sex offender
A Christchurch man who committed a series of sexual offences, including rapes, at ''raves'' in several parts of the South Island has had his sentence reduced. Mateo Melina Nixon admitted 13 charges -...
View ArticleRocks thrown at train, Maori warden assaulted
UPDATED 9.16AM: A group of young people have caused so much damage to a train on Auckland's Southern Line, it's had to be taken out of service. Passengers were dropped off at Puhinui Station last...
View ArticleHomicide investigation after body found in Upper Hutt
UPDATED 10.52AM: Police are hunting three men over a suspicious death in Upper Hutt. A homicide investigation was launched after a body was found at a house in Ward St, Wallaceville, shortly after...
View ArticlePolice investigate attempted child abduction outside Hamilton preschool
Police are seeking witnesses to an attempted abduction of a child outside a pre-school. A two-year-old girl was being dropped off at a Hamilton pre-school at around 5.50pm yesterday, when as her father...
View ArticlePolice remain at scene of Upper Hutt death
Police are today back at the Upper Hutt house where a woman was killed as they search for answers. A homicide investigation is underway after 30-year-old woman was found dead in her Ward Street home in...
View ArticleThirteen arrests at Christmas in the Park
Thirteen people, including four youths, were arrested at Christmas in the Park at Auckland Domain last night. The 13 arrests made were all for offences relating to alcohol and disorder. Another ten...
View ArticleKiwi dad accused of baby assault granted bail
A man charged over an alleged assault which left his baby daughter in a Queensland hospital with serious brain injuries has faced court. The 39-year-old New Zealand man, who cannot be identified, was...
View ArticleHastings District Council accused of fiddling with evidence
The Hastings District Council has told a hearing it's been accused of fiddling with evidence into the contamination of Havelock North's drinking water. A Government Inquiry Panel is considering whether...
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