Court

Dean Mulligan has been jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 15 years for the murder of Wanganui woman Marice McGregor.

A 40-year-old man appeared in Christchurch District Court today facing 51 charges of sex and violence involving two girls.

A man charged with wounding his nine-month-old daughter during a fight with the girl's mother has made a brief appearance in court.

A man who smacked his 6-year-old son's bottom once with an open hand, resulting in redness and a bruise beginning to appear, had since referred himself to "Stopping Violence" and attended his first

A Rotorua mother who started dealing drugs in order to fund her methamphetamine habit has been jailed for three years 10 months.

A 15-year-old boy will appear in Hamilton District Court today seeking bail after he was arrested and charged following a stabbing in Paeroa early on Friday morning.

Neighbours of a toddler who drowned in a west Auckland stormwater drain told today how a manhole covering the drain was regularly forced up after heavy rain and numerous complaints were made to Wai

A retired pilot who wanted to show his friends "the abilities" of his 6.2-litre V8 Mercedes Benz instead treated them to a car accident and put his passengers "at risk of death".