Despite finding enough evidence to charge Lake Alice lead psychiatrist Dr Selwyn Leeks, he will escape prosecution because he is medically unfit to stand trial.

She had been pulled over by police but a mystery man turned up to spring her from the back of the police car - at gunpoint.

Out of hundreds of teens who look at screens for more than 43 hours a week, up to 90% show signs of dry eye disease, Auckland Uni research finds.

The man accused of killing 2-year-old Arapera Fia can now be named, while a woman charged with manslaughter continues to fight for suppression.

The judge's identity and background circumstances of the complaint can't be published, judicial conduct panel says.

She says her son agreed to let her live there for the rest of her life. He says there was never any such agreement.

The driver and sole survivor of a crash which killed five teenagers near Timaru in August has been charged with five counts of manslaughter.

Fairmont Wiringi, who was injured in a double shooting earlier this year, fled after Corrections staff took his handcuffs off to allow him to go to the toilet.

Angry neighbours say workers for an Auckland property developer have ruined a driveway and damaged fences, trespassed, sworn at them, and created unacceptable noise.

Luke Lambert has admitted stabbing four people inside a Countdown supermarket in Dunedin.

The flooding in May caused $43.8m damage and would have been less severe without climate change.

Corrections and the Southern District Health Board have been told to apologise to the family of a teenager who died in a suspected suicide in prison.

November advice from Dr Ashley Bloomfield saw no reason to keep Auckland's border in place once the traffic light system began.

In a text sent from his boat, the man has told Stuff he won't be leaving until "matters are resolved".

Recovery managers who dealt with Canterbury's winter floods are urging the Government to take the matter seriously.

Gray has been at the helm of Lyttelton Port Company since February 2020 and will finish in March next year.

KiwiRail will keep the brakes on two of its famous scenic railway journeys until the middle of next year amid continued uncertainty from Covid-19.

REVIEW: This should be compulsory viewing for anyone who doesn’t believe the effects of Covid are real and potentially life-threatening.

People say there was a bang before the car left the road, then people running to the scene, some swimming out to help.

Ryman Healthcare is to spend $30 million expanding the Jean Sandel Retirement Village in New Plymouth.