Netsafe is warning Kiwis of increasingly sophisticated and hard-to-detect scams, which have taken almost $65,000 this year. Reports across the country... Read More

A 19-year-old man has been charged after footage allegedly showing puppies being thrown into the Whakatāne River sparked a police investigation. The... Read More

ASB is sounding the alarm over a surge in highly convincing scam calls, with fraudsters impersonating bank staff and asking customers to share verification codes... Read More

Warning: This story deals with details of sexual assault, and may be distressing. A young woman said her trauma was 'reignited” when her rapist... Read More

Police are 'extremely disappointed” by behaviour at Beach Hop in Whangamatā which led to 30 arrests. It is more arrests than in recent years at the... Read More

The question over what happened to a Tauranga man's backpack after he fell and hit his head before later dying in hospital remains unanswered. Scott... Read More

A social worker lied to Corrections so she could take a man who was meant to be confined to his home with an ankle monitor for walks up Mount Maunganui. Carrie... Read More

Warning: This story deals with the death of a child, and may be distressing. On November 15, 2024, Pauline Timu put Rickah'Shae Keefe-Haerewa in the back... Read More

Two private ambulance operators convicted of altering documents to account for their use of controlled drugs have narrowly avoided imprisonment due to... Read More

Police and social workers investigating a child neglect case rescued a 3-year-old with teeth decayed almost to his gums, and a weeks-old baby who tested... Read More

Warning: This story deals with details of sexual offending against a child and may be distressing. A man in his early 20s had a four-month intimate... Read More

A Tauranga man has been sentenced to 24 months' imprisonment for tax and Covid-related offending after obtaining more than $80,000 he wasn't entitled to. Vincent... Read More