Thousands gather to farewell Easy Rider sinking victims
Close to 4000 people gathered at Invercargill's Rugby Park Stadium this morning for a combined funeral service of the four men recovered from Easy Rider.The four caskets were carried into the stadium...
View ArticleMurdered man's family call for legal system change
The parents of a man who bludgeoned to death with a hammer in 2010 have slammed the justice system as "stuffed", and called for more changes to protect victims.Ron and Faye Bishop, the parents of...
View ArticleChild identity theft 'repugnant'
Colin Diedrichs used the identities of dead children to apply for government benefits, and hid the money in 29 different bank accounts.The 82-year-old was sentenced today at the Auckland District Court...
View ArticleFather died from punch after trying to break up group - coroner
A father-of-four died after he was punched in the head by a man trying to move on a group socialising outside some flats in Hastings, a Hawkes Bay coroner has found.Walsh Perston, 23, died after a blow...
View ArticleTourists' tragic end still hurts families
A Spanish couple killed in a head-on crash with a truck in Northland were only days away from completing their dream holiday in New Zealand and returning home to begin a future together.Joan Roma Serra...
View ArticlePrison plans "nonsensical'' - Labour
Plans to shut down two prisons and cut back resources at several others have been described by Labour as nonsense.The Department of Corrections today announced that Wellington and New Plymouth prisons...
View ArticleSearch and Surveillance Bill becomes law
The Search and Surveillance Bill passed its third and final reading in Parliament today.Justice Minister Judith Collins said the new Search and Surveillance Act 2012 brought "order, certainty, clarity...
View ArticleMegaupload data host: Somebody needs to pay the bill
The company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file sharing site Megaupload says somebody needs to pay the company's bill or it should be allowed to delete the data.Carpathia Hosting...
View ArticleChopper pilot fined after flying with man dangling from skids
A helicopter pilot who flew over a lake with a man dangling from the skids has been fined, sentenced to community work, and has had his flying licence suspended for three months.Antony Shane Metcalfe,...
View ArticleKids dying because of drinking - experts
Hundreds of children are injured, killed or abused every year by caregivers who have been drinking but agencies are failing to grasp the extent of the problem, experts say.An Alcohol Action conference...
View ArticlePolice hunt for alleged gunman in Wanganui
Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a firearms incident in Wanganui.Police were called out this afternoon when gunshots were heard in the suburb of Aramoho.A man was later taken to...
View ArticleA different kind of AB...
The mention of AB means only one thing to most Kiwis - the All Blacks. But migrant farm workers are being warned that an "AB" on a farm is not alluding to a VIP visit - it's something else entirely.A...
View ArticleLabour fails to change search bill
The Search and Surveillance Bill passed its third reading in Parliament last night, and is intended to give consistency to search, surveillance and seizure laws.But Labour lost its battle to have the...
View Article$23m Lotto draw: Past winners go for cars, homes and....
The car and overseas travel are a given - but whoever wins tomorrow's $23 million Lotto Powerball draw is just as likely to celebrate with a trip to the dentist.The combined prize from Powerball and...
View ArticleJudge gives Dotcom cash and car back
Kim Dotcom will have more than $300,000 in seized funds returned to him, and a further $20,000 deposited into his bank account each month to cover his living expenses.The internet tycoon won an appeal...
View ArticlePort row: Brown calls in top QC
Auckland Mayor Len Brown is bringing in a high-powered lawyer, Alan Galbraith, QC, to keep tabs on legal moves in the bitter dispute on the wharves and to protect the council's 100 per cent...
View ArticleSurprise at number of parents speaking Maori
A third of mothers introducing their children to te reo were not Maori. Manukau mother Marama Davidson speaks "barely conversational" Maori and her husband Paul knows only "basic words" - but they...
View ArticleMother and son's hospital reunion
Aiden Lints lies happily on a hospital bed, his little fingers flicking through the pages of a book about animals.He hears a voice and turns his head towards the door.A woman says: "Aiden ... mummy's...
View ArticleStrike off but unionists locked out
Frustrated Auckland port workers marched to the waterfront through lunch-time traffic yesterday after voting "unanimously" to end a four-week strike, only to be denied entry.Chanting "Whose port? Our...
View ArticleGlances led police to cannabis stash
A man whose nervous glances at the ceiling led police to his stash of drying cannabis wasyesterday found guilty of possessing the drug for supply.A Greymouth District Court jury took 33 minutes to...
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