Matthew Theunissen

The courts will continue to operate with the current legal aid system for the time being despite the Court of Appeal ruling it unlawful.

Neill Ellis travelled from his home in the Bay of Plenty to "Tornado Alley" in the United States to fulfil a lifelong dream.

A man who sparked a major Armed Offenders Squad operation on Auckland's North Shore yesterday has been granted interim name suppression so a psychiatric report can be prepared.

A District Court judge who was walking her son's dog when it injured a person has been discharged without conviction and ordered to pay $500 compensation to the victim.

An Auckland man has been sentenced to 50 hours of community work and ordered to pay nearly $2000 reparation for a "shocking" case of animal cruelty.

A skydiving plane carrying nine people was over the allowable weight limit and unbalanced when it plummeted to the ground and burst into flames, killing everyone aboard, a coroner has found.

More than a third of farm fatalities involve quad bikes, and the number of injuries from quad bikes is increasing at an "alarming" rate, according to a study by Waikato Hospital's trauma centre.

Residents are returning to their houses this morning following a P lab explosion that has injured at least one man.

A linesman escaped almost unscathed after receiving an 11,000 volt shock - almost four times as powerful as an electric chair.

The family of slain roadworker George Taiaroa have made an impassioned plea for information that could lead to the arrest of his killer.