Abby Gillies

A removal worker who claimed he was was hit by his boss with a stepladder and suffered other threats and injuries during his employment has been awarded $13,000.

A 68-year-old man charged with several historic sexual offences has appeared at Waitakere District Court.

A church minister has been cleared of assaulting an off-duty police officer who was refereeing his son's under-10 rugby game in a disagreement over a try.

An ex pat New Zealander accused of murdering his wife has gone on trial in Canada.

A sworn police officer facing a raft of charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of drugs has been denied bail.

A female truck driver working in Queenstown has been awarded more than $63,000 for being sexually harassed, discriminated against because of her gender and unjustifiably dismissed from her job.

Buying a property has just become more expensive than ever before with the average national asking price reaching a record high last month, according to new figures.

A Christchurch man who suffered fatal injuries when the disc grinder he was using sliced into his chest has been named as John Hebden.

Convicted murderer Antonie Dixon was seen naked, bleeding and with a cloth cord from his anti-suicide gown tied around his neck seven minutes before Corrections staff entered his cell at Auckland Prison on the day he died from self-strangulation.

Prostitutes as young as 13 are earning up to $600 a night in south Auckland, according to an MP who will be at a meeting called by community leaders to discuss an "outbreak" of underage street workers in the area.