An accomplished space scientist is now grounded on home detention for offences described as a determined campaign to break, humiliate and embarrass a woman he knew.
Police will be monitoring a protest led by Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki that intends marching through central Wellington before staging a mock trial at Parliament.
A new poll has Labour and National almost deadlocked - and Labour's pollsters have found Labour and the Greens could not form a Government, even if helped by NZ First or Te Pāti Māori.
Embattled National MP Sam Uffindell was put on notice for living in one of North Dunedin’s filthiest flats, described as a haven for vermin and disease by health inspectors.
What was at first consensual sex while tied to the front seat of a car beside a Nelson river morphed into a frightening encounter involving a combat knife and metal hooks.
National MP Sam Uffindell says boarding schools were full of 'rough and tumble' in the 1990s. But were violence and bullying really par for the course and has anything changed?
National MP Sam Uffindell has been stood down from the party's caucus while an investigation is carried out into allegations he bullied a flatmate when he was a university student.
The government has passed its bill repealing the three strikes law, which automatically hands maximum sentences to criminals who commit three serious crimes.