A middle-aged teacher spent years grooming a girl he met when she was 12, starting a full sexual relationship with her at 16 and marrying her when she was 22.
A vigil in memory of Enere McLaren-Taana has been cancelled at the last minute after it was deemed "not appropriate" by organisers the Dunedin City Council.
Two pupils were checked over by medics after a science project mishap resulted in a hazardous substance spill at a Dunedin intermediate school this morning.
Sophia Crestani's father has told the inquest into her death that he hopes the young people caught up in the chaos at the party can be released from feeling guilty.
Donald Trump is the first US president to be convicted of a crime after a jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.