The man who was shot at Flaxmere Primary School yesterday was not threatening staff or children at the time, police say. A man was shot once by police yesterday afternoon after Flaxmere Primary School went into lockdown. A Hawke's Bay Hospital......
Police have warned another person for naming Grace Millane's killer, in breach of court orders. After a three-week trial in the High Court at Auckland, the 27-year-old man was last month convicted of murdering the British backpacker in December......
A four-man team has moved beyond the 170m seal in Pike River Mine, the first people to do so in eight years. It is seen as a major development in the painstaking job of examining the 2.3km entry tunnel to the mine. The aim is to look for clues as......
Further charges have been laid since the death of a 90-year-old woman following an assault in Bath Street, Levin, on Saturday 2 November. One young person has been charged with murder. Two others have been charged with being party to murder. All......
A former school teacher has been jailed for two years and six months for sexual misconduct involving two students. The 37-year old woman has admitted seven charges of sexual relations with minors and two of sending sexual material to minors. In sentencing......
A former school teacher is due to be sentenced in the Blenheim District Court this afternoon over sexual misconduct involving two students. The woman, who has name suppression, appeared in court in October and admitted to seven charges of sexual relations......
The man responsible for New Zealand' s biggest fraud will be released from jail in February after serving slightly more than six years. David Ross, the former director of the failed company Ross Asset Management, was jailed in November 2013 for......
Police have made an arrest following a serious assault in Brooklyn, Wellington earlier this month. Emergency services were called to Central Park just before midday on Friday 6 December. A woman with life-threatening injures was taken to hospital......
Police are responding to a firearm incident on Henderson Road in Hastings. Flaxmere Primary School has lifted a lockdown it went into as a precaution. The school issued a Facebook post saying they were okay. St Johns Ambulance said they are transporting......
