The mother of the Marokopa children was three times over the legal alcohol limit when she crashed her vehicle into a drain before it came to a rest on its roof.
Police have made a potential breakthrough in relation to the identity of a man who was found dead in Christchurch's Heathcote Valley more than two weeks ago.
A fear of the unknown was front of mind for a Christchurch actor-turned-activist on board another humanitarian flotilla setting sail for the Gaza Strip.
Health New Zealand is proposing to cut staff working on alcohol harm by a third and end its alcohol research and social marketing campaigns, the public service union says.
'We love these young people," the Prime Minister says, but a youth advocate believes they're being "punished for and economic crisis they didn't create."
An anti-trafficking expert says the idea that only 31 people are trafficked each year in New Zealand is very unlikely, given that an estimate puts modern slavery here at 8000 victims.