The judge in Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial has made her case "virtually appeal-proof" and it'll be difficult for her to successfully challenge her convictions, a legal expert says.
Investigations are continuing after a woman was hit by a car in central Dunedin yesterday morning, resulting in both her and the driver being taken to hospital.
The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas rose to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams press on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris for scores of people still missing.
A new project backed by film-maker Sir Peter Jackson aims to bring back the extinct South Island giant moa but an Otago zoology professor says any end result "will not, cannot be, a moa".
CCTV from outside a Wellington house where an elderly woman was found dead shows no one else parked outside or walked up the steps to the house after her daughter - who is accused of murdering her - says she left to get help.
The widow of a granddad killed by a meth-fuelled truck driver in a fiery crash says he was looking forward to retirement and the couple's first overseas trip.