Ethan Webster was 18 when he and William Candy, 39. murdered Jacob Mills Ramsay by beating him, chaining him to a car and dragging him along a gravel track.

MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has officially been reinstated to Te Pāti Māori, following a High Court decision that ruled her suspension and subsequent expulsion was "unlawful".

Convicted double-murderer Scott Watson has been granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Watson was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the Marlborough ...

For a decade, Australian reporter Keith Dalton was a freelance foreign radio and newspaper correspondent stationed in the Philippines. This was during the 1970s and 1980s, when Keith was in his ...

Wastewater analysis from PHF Science shows the number of cases are currently at the highest rate for more than six months and figures from Health NZ show there have been 50 hospitalisations and 19 ...

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If Aucklanders aren't bothered to vote, their choice should be respected, Wayne Brown says, but he supports calls to move to in-person voting in 2028.

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The latest on financial market volatility on the back of spiking oil prices as Air New Zealand suspends its earning guidance. Business commentator, NBR journalist Nicholas Pointon, also discusses ...

A High Court jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of a man accused of murdering and dismembering Canterbury father-of-three Richard Leman. Michael Scott Rodger, 46, is accused of ...