Gloriavale leaders burnt a book written and distributed without their knowledge by a Christian community member, leaving the man and his wife to contemplate leaving the commune, a court has heard.

Just one month after the Privacy Commissioner warned police to do better when it comes to number plate cameras and privacy, a detective pretended a car was stolen so they could track it.

The prominent businessman was sentenced after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three men and then trying to dissuade one from giving evidence.

Police are appealing for sightings of two vehicles in relation to their investigation of an assault in Masterton on Monday.

Hundreds of people were displaced by last month's flooding across Nelson and Tasman, but less than 50 households have registered for accommodation support.

A radiologist says IT systems vital to accurate scanning for patients are shutting down several times a day in at least one central region hospital.

Principals are preparing to challenge the disproportionate adverse impact of the new equity funding on low socioeconomic schools in Pasifika and minority communities.

One person has died following a crash near Taupō this afternoon.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested after a shooting in Gisborne last night which injured a woman and two young people.

Blood was left splattered on the footpath outside the court precinct.

A 20-year-old man has denied all charges including kidnapping and threatening to kill after a person was forcibly taken from their home to a nearby ATM last week.

A software tool that revolutionises how the Bay of Plenty Regional Council records its pest data and one of its developers are both finalists in the Biosecurity New Zealand Awards.

A scrub fire started by a burning car coming down from the Remarkables near Queenstown has now been contained.

Police are seeking information about a stabbing that took place on Courtney Place in Wellington in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman died after being shot in Rotorua on Sunday morning.

A man who died in a stream might have been saved if police took a concerned caller seriously, a Coroner has found.

A man who used fake documents to secure a job as a doctor is now facing 10 more changes.

Some Napier residents are "appalled, angry and upset" they were kept in the dark about a proposed social housing development.