A Northland family who muzzled dogs with insulation tape and left them in a dark and dirty shelter...

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

The organiser of a hikoi which marched peacefully down Auckland's Queen Street today says the new foreshore and seabed legislation breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.

Jacob Beck-Jaffurs, who was in his final year of medical school, has died after a spear-fishing trip near Tauranga.

Former bank manager Vanessa Adams' family and friends sobbed openly in court as she was sent to prison for stealing more than $200,000 from customers' accounts.

Four-year-old boy is battling one of the world's rarest genetic diseases

A Far North man has been charged with murder following the discovery of an Auckland man's body near a popular hiking track in Northland.

Ground staff have painted out about 10 slogans, including a swastika, at Toll Stadium in Whangarei.