Damin Peter Cook claims he was asleep when he raped a woman. He used members of his family, former partners and expert psychiatric evidence to argue his defence - that sexsomnia was the cause of the ...

A musician found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in what a judge described as “excessive self-defence” in a “toxic ...

An in-school programme has Rangitīkei children feeling more confident on two wheels thanks to the help of the council and ...

People in Whanganui are advised to “keep a close eye on the forecast” this week, with MetService predicting a mixed bag of ...

A 30-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with murder after 11 people died and more than two dozen were injured when a car ...

The Minister for Regulation believes his Ministry has given him 'rubbish' advice on banking rules. David Seymour appears to be siding with banks rather tha ...

Erin Clark is adamant he's got plenty of development still to come as the Warriors continue to march up the NRL ladder.

A Colombian national “roped” into importing cocaine while working on a New Zealand farm has lost her fight to avoid a conviction.

Police visited a woman who had been seeing recently paroled rapist Joseph Brider to “advise her of his history and assess her ...

A man who allegedly stormed into a dairy with a machete and made off with half a backpack of cigarettes has been charged with ...

MP Shane Jones says New Zealand First is stepping in to stop management of the Waitākere Ranges from morphing into co-governance.

The potential expansion comes as Far North District Council continues not to comply with the June 2022 directive from then ...