New Zealand First will campaign on a referendum on the Māori seats this year, with the party saying the time had come for a decision on their future.

"No one truly knows a nation until he's been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged on how it treats its highest citizens but how it treats its lowest ones," the Australian mosque terrorist's lawyer has claimed.

Two young people have told how they were held in slavery by an Auckland man for several years.

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by a Border Patrol agent plans to sue, after a trove of evidence released casts doubt on the Trump administration's account of the incident.

A Christchurch college is carrying out an investigation following revelations it was told of allegations of sexual offending by a priest nearly 20 years before he was convicted of abuse at the school.

British police are "making progress" on whether to launch a full investigation into allegations Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential trade documents with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.