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A Christchurch businessman has admitted seven charges of having unlawful sexual connection with a 15-year-old girl.

Northland's "Lion Man" Craig Busch unlawfully retained property when sacked from Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens, an Employment Relations Authority (ERA) hearing was told today.

Invercargill City Council chief executive Richard King has admitted having up to four red wines before crashing his council-owned car.

A Zimbabwe-born man will not have to face a second trial on charges of raping and murdering his 10-year-old niece.

Former New Zealand Post team leader Stephen James Francis Cadigan used to complain about mail thefts while he was stealing thousands of letters himself.

An international student who stabbed his teacher in the back was jailed for 18 months when he appeared in Auckland District Court today.

A drunk man who robbed an 89-year-old woman in a Christchurch supermarket carpark felt so bad afterwards that he helped police recover her purse, a court was told today.

Members of the public fled from a Nelson courtroom as an agitated man appearing on violence charges fled from the dock and started running towards them.

The man at the centre of a police pursuit that led to an innocent man being shot dead has been jailed for at least eight years.

Three men accused of murdering a man in Auckland in what prosecutors say was retribution for a drug robbery were today found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.