Belinda Feek

A group of Vietnamese nationals managed to grow 460 cannabis plants under the noses of police and district court staff in a small Waikato town.

Police were justified in shooting wanted fugitive Tom Phillips deep in the Waitomo bush last year, a decision has ruled.

Upset about a rival laundromat opening across the road, businessman Timothy Raymond Jeffs set out on a relentless path of threats, blackmail and sabotage.

Jason Monkley spent months fixing the van, only to set fire to it at the Hamilton Gardens.

Fuelled by meth and cannabis, Tre John Clarke violently stabbed a man in the back four times, believing he had stolen his friend's phone.

As the country's coroners make their way through the current backlog of files, thankfully there are 807 fewer cases than a year ago, and that easing is set to continue with the opening of specialist premises in Hamilton.

A father and daughter who had consensual sex could be heard in the act by other house occupants. On at least one occasion, an occupant walked in on the pair having sex.

A judge has lambasted a prolific shoplifter, telling her to stop ripping off retailers and use her benefit money to feed her children, rather than paying reparations for stolen goods.

An attack on a newly transferred prisoner over lozenges triggered a group of inmates to riot after becoming upset their break time was over.

A hair sample from a 2-year-old detected 15 drugs in the boy's system, including methamphetamine, cocaine and ketamine.