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Wairangi Koopu was also a contestant on Celebrity Treasure Island.

A former nurse of a Christchurch mental health facility who "manipulated and groomed" a patient has avoided jail time.

A murder trial into its second week has been unexpectedly brought to an end at the High Court at Whangārei, .

A former Destiny Church youth leader who sexually abused several young boys has been sentenced to six years in prison.

They men were both charged with murder over the weekend.

Enere Taana-McLaren, 16, was killed during a confrontation between the teenagers at Dunedin's central city bus hub.

A doctor who wanted to have sex with one of his male medical students gave him medication meant for erectile dysfunction and told him it was to help him sleep.

A bout of food poisoning before they arrived in Nelson for a summer holiday led to the 15-year-old developing alarming post-viral symptoms.

The driver "suffered severe burns, disfigurement, and debilitating nerve damage to his genitals.

It is one of many in the ongoing police campaign to seize hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, assets and property from criminals.

Police have arrested another funeral director in relation to an investigation relating to inappropriate handling of burials at an Auckland cemetery.

Aaron Coupe abandoned his appeal on 13 March.

Ngāti Kahu o Torongare have been in and out of court for the last 30 years to protect Onoke Pā.

A long-serving firefighter has been told to familiarise himself with sexual harassment policy after a protracted employment investigation in which he was fired and then reinstated.

It was his fifth attempt to be released from jail.

A man and woman were taken into custody.

The 19-year-old claims to be a reformed man after being taken under the wing of a mentor from Destiny Church's Man Up programme.

The horses Thomas Simon attempted to poison belonged to his ex-partner.