The wife of a man killed by his pet stag Robert has a lot of questions. She's unlikely to ever get answers.

A man believed to be Hendrix Jury flew shirtless after being asked to remove his gang patch, but hadn't yet been identified as a shooting suspect.

Police haven't identified the woman whose body was found in an abandoned vehicle near a Hawke's Bay river, but are treating the death as a homicide.

It took three weeks, five different doctors and more than 12 hours in waiting rooms for a Hamilton mum to get her sick 1-year-old sorted.

"Thankfully he realised what it was pretty quickly," his wife says.

The news, arriving before dawn broke, set into motion what will be 11 days of mourning and commemorations.

A man who beat his partner to death in a school yard argued use of the psychedelic meant he didn't know "death was likely".

Rapist Joseph Brider was deemed at high risk of reoffending when he got out of jail. He was released into a house, right next door to a single woman who lived alone.

In the early hours of the morning, a police officer walked in on the sleeping Prime Minister with a flashlight. She needed to check her phone.

There are 243 people in hospital with the virus on Friday, including five in intensive care, the Ministry of Health says.

Eye surgeon Ian Dallison has pleaded not guilty in the High Court. His trial is scheduled for February 2024.

The Auckland mayoral candidate is embroiled in a $353,000 spat over campaign bills.

Ten years before he randomly killed a mother-of-four on her way home from work, Zakariye Hussein was shot twice by police after stabbing a man 11 times.

The lawyer for a man charged with an attack in Jellicoe Park says none of the victim's DNA was found on his client's clothes.

A Dunedin hairdresser killed her friend, covered her in paint to prevent odours, then left her body for a week before burying her in a shallow grave.

He offered her a drink from a Pump water bottle. She drank it believing it to be water, but then started to feel unwell.

Members of the country’s 14,500 Jehovah’s Witnesses will be visiting homes again after the pandemic forced them to pause their door-to-door ministry.

She may have died more than 18,000 kilometres away, but Wellingtonians arrived in their thousands to pay tribute to their late monarch.

A Wellingtonian who met the Queen four times found she had a soft diplomacy and a knack for 'getting you to talk'.

Hawira Duncan's “atrocious” prolonged attack destroyed his victim's “wonderful” life and caused the loss of her independence, a court has heard.