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Truck driver Sarah Hope Schmidt sent 45 Snapchat messages and received 85 while driving.

A 32-year-old who bound and assaulted an elderly man during a robbery failed to have his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal.

A 19-year-old caught with dye-stained hands has been jailed, after helping uplift almost a kilogram of methamphetamine.

A drunk driver, dragging his dog suspended from a window, pulled the fingers at motorists who were honking and yelling at him to stop.

An inquest is underway into the deaths of 13 people in relation to the 2023 cyclone.

The Grammy-winning lyrics claimed the Canadian rapper was a "certified pedophile".

Husamettin Dogan was the only one to have maintained his appeal after the first trial last year of 51 men, including Pelicot's husband.

A video recording of a survivor's harrowing account of the White Island disaster has been played in a coroner's court.

Tuariki Delamere admitted he made a "dumb decision many years ago".

The Auckland teacher had earlier pleaded guilty to abusing an 11-year-old student more than 20 years her junior.

A woman has pleaded not guilty to interfering with human remains after the body of a newborn baby was found in a wheelie bin.

Aaron Drever has been sentenced to another eight months' jail, this time for misleading the Official Assignee.

It comes as police continue to hunt for those who helped the fugitive father stay hidden.

Daytona Thompson, the coward-punch killer of videographer Daniel Nganeko will spend four years and two months in prison.

The sexual assault lawsuit against author Neil Gaiman has been dismissed by a US judge on jurisdictional grounds.

ASB has reached a $135.6 million settlement to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged historical breaches of credit disclosures.

An Internal Affairs investigation found the company breached its obligations under anti-money laundering and terrorism financing laws.

The project was not one of the 149 included in the original list accompanying the Fast Track Approvals Bill.

The 23-year-old man was arrested in July after a baby girl was admitted to Hutt Hospital with multiple fractures in the previous month.