Central Coast Mariners’ star striker Angel Torres has been charged with sexual assault. Torres, 24, was arrested at a property in Terrigal on Monday in relation to an alleged sexual assault of a woman ...
The parents of a 2-year-old girl swept away in floodwaters during Cyclone Gabrielle say someone just had to “push a button once” to prevent their daughter’s death. It comes as a Government inquiry ...
This year the Waitangi Tribunal turns 50 – that’s pretty young considering the multitude of discrepancies between Māori and the Crown since the Treaty was signed in 1840. The Waitangi Tribunal is a ...
Former Warrior Ngani Laumape looks set to start for the Hurricanes. Photo / Richard Robinson. Ngani Laumape looks like he will be starting in the Hurricanes' midfield against the Crusaders and the ...
A raft of medical equipment, computers and medication has been stolen from a school dental clinic trailer and police are asking for the public’s help with their investigation. Detective Sergeant ...
Hope Project co-ordinator and Shining Lights Trust director Dave Mann says he has recalled “somewhere over 300,000″ Easter pamphlets that featured another Māori man’s head imposed on kaumatua Pat Mohi ...
You have no right to try and physically control others and you have no right to limit who they choose to have relations with.” Those were the strong words delivered by a judge as he sentenced a man to ...
A rest home and some of its staff have been asked to provide written apologies to the whānau of a man who died two weeks after being in their care. Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper found Oceania ...
An uncertain New Zealand sharemarket was again lower, giving up well-earned gains from the day before, but there was some bargain hunting in cyclical retail stocks. The S&P/NZX 50 Index treaded softly ...
Auckland police have seized a Mercedes-Benz G Wagon, a luxury car that can fetch almost $400,000 new, along with nine other vehicles in relation to dangerous-driving incidents on Muriwai Beach. Police ...
A fight against deportation has been dragged into its 11th year by a Kiribati national who raped a woman and is desperate to remain in New Zealand. The man, referred to in a Court of Appeal decision ...