Anneke Smith

A secret witness in the trial of a man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery has told a court he overheard the crime being planned.

A mother and son have described being attacked in a violent dairy robbery in central Auckland last year.

A man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery has gone on trial at the Auckland High Court.

An Auckland man who murdered his mother and set fire to her Mt Roskill home has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years.

An Ōtara man has been jailed for at least 17 years for murdering a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

One of the country's top lawyers wants the government to fully fund reports that help sentencing judges better understand an offender's background. Audio

A woman who jointly stole more than $368,000 from the Ports of Auckland with her lover has been jailed.

A teenager charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in central Auckland last year can now be named.

A drunk motorist who ran a red light, killing a taxi driver in Auckland's CBD, has been jailed for three years and eight months.

Two cousins on trial for the murder of a man in Māngere last year have been found guilty.

The jury has retired for deliberations in the trial of two cousins accused of murdering a young father and trying to murder his wife.

A top military attache has been sentenced to four and a half months of home detention after he tried to film his colleagues on the toilet in the NZ Embassy in Washington DC.

A man on trial for murdering a young father in Māngere last year has insisted he's not a liar.

An Auckland man who spiked McDonald's ice cream sundaes with sleeping pills has been sentenced to 12 months of intensive supervision.

One of the men accused of murdering Abraham Tu'uheava told police he overhead his cousin say he had the "green light" to kill him.

The Film and Literature Board has rejected claims the livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks is fake.

The man accused of the Christchurch terror attacks has pleaded not guilty to all the 92 charges laid against him and will face trial in May next year.

The man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks is now appearing in court.

Police have described riding in an ambulance trying to get information from a woman who had been shot four times including in the head - and whose husband had been shot dead.

The Norwegian prison officials visited New Zealand to give advice for managing the man charged with murder over the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Ngatokoitu Tapora killed Jeremy Kaukasi and Taylor Charles King with a bus. The judge cried as the families read their victim impact statements and called their pain and loss "harrowing".

A 39-year-old man charged with attempted murder of a gang leader in East Auckland has pleaded not guilty.

Benny Haerewa was released from jail in 2010. Today he pleaded guilty to 11 violence and sexual violence charges committed between 2015 and 2017.

Police are yet to charge anyone with breaching name suppression of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane.

The Crown has opened its case against a man accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a Far North Māori Trust.