Belinda Feek

Not long after being released from jail for committing an aggravated robbery , Zane Russell Smith was back at it again - this time targeting a bottle store.

A man will fight charges of murder and attempted murder after an alleged shooting on a remote road on the Coromandel Peninsula.

A North Island horse trainer who admitted ill-treatment of four horses - including kicking one twice in the genitals - has won a bid to avoid any convictions and to keep his name permanently secret.

The judge wants further information before convicting him on child assault charges.

A man involved in a police pursuit that ended in a shooting - with bullets narrowly missing two officers - is getting too old to still be appearing in court, his lawyer says.

Two siblings beat each other up so badly in a fight over Lego that their parents were too scared to take them to hospital for treatment, fearing Oranga Tamariki would uplift them from their home.

The children needed medical assistance but the parents failed to take them.

The siblings left each other with significant injuries but their parents were too scared to take them to hospital for fear Oranga Tamariki would uplift them.

The woman had kids in the car when she ploughed into the back of Raymond Mathews.

“I won't be home late tonight,” Raymond Mathews said to his wife, Marie, as he shot out the door to join his mates at golf in Ngāruawāhia on the morning of August 9, last year