A young woman jumped naked from the upper-storey window of a house to escape a prolonged and brutal beating perpetrated by ...

Coastguard Sumner volunteers and the Surf Life Saving SAR team have performed a dramatic rescue after a man slid 100m down ...

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is allegedly receiving treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia while in jail on Rikers ...

Auckland’s Southern Motorway is closed to all southbound traffic due a police incident and rush hour motorists are being ...

Jared Savage covers crime and justice issues, with a particular interest in organised crime. He joined the Herald in 2006 and ...

The partner of murdered Christchurch real estate agent Yanfei Bao has spoken of his unfolding horror as he discovered she ...

A teenager had worked only four shifts as a pizza delivery driver before he was accused of stealing $50 and fired “on the ...

A group of young people who climbed onto the roof of their youth justice facility in Auckland’s Wiri were “hungry” and “tired ...

Consumer NZ has found that Air New Zealand flights across the Tasman around school holidays increased 43% - almost twice the ...

A major police investigation targeting organised crime prevented a planned shooting at a gang tangi and the attempted murder ...

Darleen Tana is no longer an MP, with Speaker Gerry Brownlee this morning completing the final step in the process of ...

A roof-top protest from youths locked up in a youth justice facility is over. The last remaining youth came down from the ...