Otago Daily Times: National News

Victims of the Ashburton Work and Income shooting and their families could be in line to receive payouts after one Crown agency took the unusual step of prosecuting another.

The cost of implementing a new child support system has rocketed to $163 million - a blowout that dwarfs the bill for fixing the controversial Novopay school payroll system.

A teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of a New Zealand hospitality worked in Cairns.

A policeman suffered numerous bite wounds to his head and cuts to his face in an "appalling" unprovoked attack by a man's pitbull dog in Foxton yesterday.

The flu vaccine is expected to be far more effective in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere, where, in England, it has achieved a success rate of just 3%.

One person is dead after their car veered off the road and crashed into a bank on the West Coast this afternoon.