Private investigators looking for an American aviation student missing from Palmerston North for more than a week say he has been found "in good health".
A well-known Wellington landlord is facing multiple charges including strangulation, threatening to kill, and making and distributing an intimate recording.
Jarreth Colquhoun died after saying he could successfully make the jump off a Wellington crane - a belief perhaps fuelled by drugs, a coroner has found.
Police did not check a report from nurses that a mental health patient had attacked a woman with an axe because they say they were provided with "little other information".
A cousin of an elderly mental health patient who murdered a pensioner at her Christchurch home believes more could have been done to ensure the man was supported in the community.