Otago Daily Times: National News

Armed police have arrested a teenager who allegedly planned to threaten a Lower Hutt resident with an air rifle.

Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison.

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.