A Katikati sharemilker who chased and mowed down a black swan with a jet boat on Tauranga Harbour and caused distress to six others has been sentenced.
A 65-year-old man was last night acquitted on all six charges alleging sexual offending against two young girls.
Friends helping an Alexandra teenager celebrate his birthday took cover behind a wheelie bin when he became angry and fired his new airgun at them, shooting one in the knee, Alexandra District Court has heard.
The defendant fully accepted ''it wasn't the tooth fairy'' who put $5000 in his bank account, counsel for Mosgiel labourer Gavin Manu Howie (23) told the Dunedin District Court yesterday. The...
A man charged with the murder of Christchurch woman Michelle Mary Lawrence will stand trial next March.
A Dunedin receptionist will spend at least two years in prison after stealing $380,000 from her employer, Gilmour Motors, and forging the signatures of two senior Dunedin lawyers while on remand.
The man accused of murdering his ex-partner in Havelock North earlier this year has pleaded guilty to charges of murder and breaching a protection order.
A woman who drove with a breath-alcohol level more than 3 times the 400mcg legal limit had her 12-year-old son as a passenger, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.
Two Dunedin teens have admitted stealing and then beating a much-loved pet lamb to death.
A Tauranga Intermediate teacher found guilty of stealing 11 tablets of a young pupil's ADHD medication had earlier been dismissed from her job after a disciplinary meeting.
A man convicted for his seventh drink-driving offence has been told to ''sort out'' his issues with alcohol before he kills someone.
A police officer has pleaded guilty to a raft of charges for smuggling contraband into Auckland prisons.
An acclaimed art dealer has been cleared of allegations he stole valuable paintings from a top New Zealand artist.
A jury has started deliberating in the case of an osteopath on trial accused of two dozen sex and indecency charges.
Courts Minister Chester Borrows has a simple message for those in the South who collectively owe more than $27 million in fines and reparations.
Trust your instincts and your training and show courage, Justice Graham Panckhurst told new lawyers admitted to the Bar in Dunedin yesterday.
A teenage girl has denied inventing an allegation of rape because she wanted to outdo her sister in her sexual abuse claims against a man both girls have accused of molesting them.
One of the men accused of murdering Polish man Roman Skorek in a Rotorua park last January has this morning pleaded guilty.
David Bain's compensation bid is one of three before the Justice Minister, who also has the power to intervene in the dozen royal prerogative of mercy applications, including that of Teina Pora, a criminologist says.
Justice Minister Judith Collins has admitted convicted rapist Teina Pora, who has spent the past 20 years in prison, could be innocent.