Hamish McNeilly

Forsyth Barr Stadium was a ''magnificent tour de force'', judges said at the annual New Zealand Commercial Project Awards before crowning it supreme winner.

A reformulated version of K2 is already appearing on dairy shelves, a day after the older version of the synthetic cannabis product had to be removed from sale.

A promising teen sportsman who stole a mobile phone and later posted a topless picture of its owner on Facebook has received a deterrent sentence for the ''cowardly and offensive'' act.

Cyberbullies have been issued a blunt message from Justice Minister Judith Collins: ''Stop''.

K2 is appearing on shop shelves as desperate dairy owners discount the soon-to-be-banned synthetic cannabis.

Paul David Bailey, the killer of Owaka schoolgirl Kylie Smith, has been denied parole.

A woman who rescued her sleeping baby and then battled a blaze in a bedroom is urging people to install smoke alarms.

The editor of Critic - the University of Otago student magazine - was escorted from the magazine's office over an employment dispute yesterday, but says he hopes to continue in the role.

The scientist behind synthetic cannabis says the products ''absolutely should not be used as recreational drugs''.

A teenage runaway has fled for the third time in as many weeks and police have now served a restraining order on her 50-year-old male companion.