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A senior lawyer with more than 30 years of good conduct has been convicted of driving with excess breath alcohol and, only three weeks later, of driving while suspended.

A woman killed in her Wellington home kept bags of money containing thousands of dollars in cash hidden around her house, including $50,000 in her freezer.

When Evan Kiddey first opened Dead Video in Christchurch, he was given one piece of advice by everyone he spoke to: “Don’t do it”. Now his retro video store is standing strong in the face of the digital era.

Foreign affairs minister Winston Peters says the government will gather the facts before taking a position on the United States' airstrikes on Iran.

The trial of a 53-year-old accused of killing her mother is set to begin at the High Court in Wellington today.

Police are still searching for a person who critically injured two people in an assault at an Auckland night market yesterday evening.

The Defence Force is sending a plane to the Middle East to assist any New Zealanders stranded in Iran or Israel.