Sir Tim Shadbolt has taken out legal action against his own council and the Invercargill City Council's chief executive says to date it has cost the council $165k.

Fifteen motorbikes were impounded and 167 infringement notices issued after the gang funeral procession in March.

A woman claims she was abused by the sex offender, who died while trying to clear his name, as a child. The Supreme Court says her evidence lacks reliability.

The man, who previously claimed he was well-known in the TV industry, has admitted his part in the burglary of Cooper's business premise in October.

Alizster Shwenke was going more than 30km/h over the speed limit when he hit and killed Jalil Mousses, throwing him 60m down the road.

A judge was wrong to say “women are probably more sensitive” than men about being filmed without their knowledge, a High Court judgment says.

John Key says China's human rights issues shouldn't hinder a close economic relationship, as he reveals the country's president sends him Christmas cards.

As emergency departments are swamped by respiratory viruses, Kidz First hospital in south Auckland says only parents and caregivers can visit patients.

A pedestrian has died after an incident on Richardson Rd in Mt Roskill.

The 27-year-old man kissed and touched two female colleagues as they slept and groped the breast of another during a tour of duty last year.

The spectator allegedly hurled abuse at the match referee, several school pupils and a journalist during a First XV game in Ashburton.

No charges were laid after reports of gunfire in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville on Friday afternoon.

Poulgrain kicked back the door of the Corrections van as staff unlocked it and shot off down the road, sources say.

Her lawyer said she was paid $150 a week for her work, which involved stockpiling, repackaging and distributing drugs like meth, cocaine and MDMA.

There were no community cases of Covid-19, but two more infected individuals have entered the country and are in managed isolation.

Report into Oranga Tamariki home for children reveals widespread serious self-harm, with the Children's Commissioner describing the enviroment as "prison-like".

ANALYSIS: With a week left before larger shipments of Pfizer vaccines arrive, we're left relying on nurses' ingenuity to keep the rollout rolling out.

The Government wants control of water supplies to be centralised, but one community already battling its local council for ownership doesn't want a bar of it.

A surgeon told a young woman seeking a hysterectomy as a way to treat chronic endometriosis that she had a responsibility to produce children first.

Methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $60,000 was recovered during the police operation.