Court hearing will be held at the hospital bedside of a man charged with the fatal stabbing of Herman and Elizabeth Bangera.

A gang member stopped with $56,370, and a baseball bat, in car said cash was to buy a boat and the bat was to “play ball” with his nephew.

A defence lawyer in an Invercargill murder trial asked a detective constable if he had “dropped the ball” relating to securing a preservation order on some social media data.

The deal is likely to be worth at least $10 billion, commentators say.

The 27-year-old allegedly threatened to carry out a terror attack involving car bombs in Christchurch on the second anniversary of the March 15 mosque massacre.

The shape of Whangārei’s political landscape is set to change after an 8:5 vote in favour of Māori wards.

A teenage girl was chased and attaked by a group targeting vulnerable people in central Dunedin, who then post their exploits online.

The two cases arrived in New Zealand days apart and have been staying on separate floors, but genome sequencing has shown a link between the pair.

The teacher avoided a harsher penalty as he had been provoked by the student, who threatened to kill him.

Partner of dead motocyclist says accused driver is "walking around enjoying his life" rather than facing what he has done.

Gerry Brownlee says an abandoned sanctions' law could be used to target Chinese officials over the abuse of the Uyghur minority.

About 100 Christchurch Girls' High students wanted to make a statement with signs saying “our bodies are not your conversation starters” and “dismantle rape culture”.

A report says the Invercargill City Council's leadership void remains, and debate continues over how much staffing support mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt needs.

Duplicate names and other errors are unlikely to be removed from Napier's original war memorial plaques.

Rawiri McClutchie’s whānau has been living on the Mimitangiatua River for generations and as a child he frequently swam and fished from its waters.

Spy agencies want more powers, as Andrew Little prepares to tackle politically-toxic issue.

At Morrinsville Intermediate School, the prime minister arrived with a handmade gift for the teacher of her favourite class back in the early 1990s.

Some patients are waiting two days for beds. "We can't keep working like this," an advocate says.

Seven-month-old Hineteaorangi went to bed with her dad a happy, well-fed and healthy baby girl. The next morning she was found lifeless with a serious head injury.

Moving people who shared a bus with a Covid-19 case to other facilities could risk further outbreaks, an epidemiologist fears.