Otago Daily Times: National News

An online car dealer which placed thousands of fake bids on more than 500 of its own auctions has been fined $42,000 this afternoon.

A man who killed a Sky TV video editor with a single punch outside an Auckland bar has lost his bid for a lighter sentence.

China's freeze on New Zealand meat imports is over, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says.

A 43-year-old man who gave a 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis and put his hand up her skirt when she passed out avoided being sent to jail today.

A man who was sentenced to home detention after permanently disabling an elderly woman when he robbed her of her bag at an Auckland shopping mall was given a "manifestly inadequate" sentence, a court has been told.

Video game players have been offered an an innovative enticement to start a career in New Zealand's fast-growing game development industry.