A woman who was told she had a "gummy smile" and that lip filler would improve its appearance ended up being treated in hospital for damage caused by a blocked blood vessel.
A tradesman disciplined after he was burned in a fire while altering a gas pipe has fallen foul of regulations again, this time for installing a gas cooker in a bedroom that could have poisoned the...
Joseph Mosen secretly filmed up the skirts of dozens of women in shops and then did it again to concertgoers while working as a security guard at the Electric Avenue festival in Christchurch.
A Christchurch teen who had to wait almost three years to face her mentally ill abuser in court says the long and frustrating process to getting justice was “bulls***”.
A man battling terminal cancer was beaten with a patu outside his Te Aroha home six months before he died.
A builder who ran three years behind schedule while building a couple's home charged them an additional $72,000 for "labour and materials", and then left contractors to complete the job.
A builder who ran three years behind schedule while building a couple's home charged them an additional $72,000 for "labour and materials", and then left contractors to complete the job.
A mental health nurse’s almost half-century career ended when he was found to have been sexually intimate with a patient in his care.
The man accused of murdering his mother in her Blenheim home last November has admitted he did it.
A mental health nurse’s almost half-century career ended when he was found to have been sexually intimate with a patient in his care.
A Christchurch sex offender who raped a teenager in a park and paid another woman to video herself abusing an infant has been recalled to prison after watching music videos featuring children and conspiring with another sexual predator.
A Dunedin mental health nurse’s almost half-century career ended when he was found to have been sexually intimate with a patient in his care.
After intentionally driving his car into a 15-year-old boy several times, Manuhuia Kupe and his partner, Miria Thompson, got out of their vehicle and laughed at him.
A man accused of abducting and raping a drunk stranger he followed home in Christchurch initially claimed he could not recall meeting the woman when probed by police.
A woman was carjacked at a busy intersection by a stranger high on drugs who was carrying a rubbish bag full of clothes.
A woman who claims she was raped by a man she did not know after a night of heavy drinking in Christchurch has been accused of acting out of character by having consensual sex with a stranger.
A man travelled between NZ, Australia and Fiji for three years using separate fake passports cleared Customs and Immigration each time.
A woman who claims she was raped by a man she did not know after a night of heavy drinking in Christchurch has been accused of acting out of character by having consensual sex with a stranger.
A man travelled between New Zealand, Australia and Fiji for three years using two separate fake passports, clearing Customs and Immigration each time.
A Rebels MC gang member who killed a man and stabbed another in a brawl outside a Blenheim nightclub is set to be released from prison after serving two and a half years of his seven-year sentence.
