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Men busted for huge underground bunker cannabis operation sentenced
Two men operating a large cannabis growing operation in a huge underground bunker have been jailed.
Mosque attack inquest provides long overdue answers
The deputy chief coroner says victims, survivors and families of 51 murdered worshippers wanted more answers than the Royal Commission of Inquiry gave them.
Court rejects violent inmate's insanity plea
Anthony John Wheble has tried to kill two fellow inmates with shanks, sliced off parts of his own ears, an eyelid and a finger.
Courts clear way for police to access CCTV cameras
Courts have cleared the way for police to carry on accessing private cameras over 200,000 times a year for evidence. Phil Pennington has more on this. Audio
Concern raised about firearms licenses in mosque attack inquest
Would someone like Brenton Tarrant be able to get a firearms licence today? This is the question at the heart of the second-phase inquest into the 51 worshippers murdered at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood… Audio
Hazardous substances a problem throughout industry, claims owner
Salters Cartage is being forced to pay $4 million in a landmark proceeds of crime settlement over the death of Jamey Bowring in 2015.
$20m of earthquake strengthening for Wellington High Court to begin
The building is among a host of courts nationwide that need expensive work done to make them safe or suitable to use.
Yanfei Bao murder trial: 'This case is not simple,' defence claims
Chinese national Tingjun Cao is on trial in the High Court in Christchurch for the murder of the real estate agent in 2023.
Christchurch terror attack foreseeable amid 'lax' laws - expert
Successive governments' attitude to gun control allowed the gunman to get military-style weapons, the inquest has been told.
Yanfei Bao: Murder trial for accused set to begin
Chinese national Tingjun Cao was arrested days after Yanfei Bao's disappearance and later charged with her murder. Audio
Yanfei Bao trial begins in Christchurch
The high court trial of the man accused of killing Christchurch woman Yanfei Bao begins today. RNZ reporter Rachel Graham spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio
Indy the rottweiler to be destroyed after cyclist injury
A rider was left in the ICU with a collapsed lung following the incident.
Call for rethink on prosecutions welcomed in some quarters while government disputes need
A Māori barrister hopes new guidelines will make judges and lawyers think carefully about the factors that put people before the courts.
Dooley vs Cleine defamation case: Mayor's claims untrue - lawyer
Claims by Buller Mayor Jamie Cleine that Westport accountant Frank Dooley assaulted former deputy mayor Sharon Roche are untrue and defamatory, Dooley's lawyer says.
One of the men jailed over murder of grandmother successfully appeals sentence
Meliame Fisi'ihoi, 57, was shot dead in her Mangere home four years ago.
Terrorist 'always spoke of a race war' - sister
The Christchurch mosque gunman's sister says she wouldn't have got in the way of Brenton Tarrant obtaining a firearms licence.
'Egregious' example of employee exploitation
The charges come after a worker complained he had been made to pay almost $17,000 for his job.
Terrorist's use of firearms in mosque shootings 'chaotic, unskilled' - expert
A firearms expert says the terrorist controlled the environment because his victims were defenceless, unexpecting, trapped, and unarmed.
Suspended Auckland dentist faces 19 charges under health practitioners law
A dentist who practised while under suspension is now facing the charges under a health act.
Court finds new home in $11m, unused former RSA rooms
Critics say the current courthouse - which has weather-tightness issues - is "laughably small" and hope its replacement will be more contained and secure.
