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'Dangerous' remarks after shootings

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provoked a backlash after election rally comments.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using "dangerous" rhetoric about Christchurch shootings to bolster election campaign, security expert says.

Courier van full of firearms 'shocking'

The sight of so many firearms being sent out for delivery following the Christchurch mosque shootings was a shock to ...

A business owner says she is devastated to see people so obviously panic buying guns in anticipation of tightened gun laws.

Man cannot explain condom removal

Norman Ariate Alonzo told the Palmerston North District Court he had no idea how a condom came off while he was having ...

Lawyer tells man charged with raping sex worker his story is not credible.

Mental health detention justified

The woman was being held in a secure facility at Porirua Hospital. (File photo)

Judge says he's "very satisfied" a rare restrict patient order was correctly used.

Can NZ gun laws really change?

Police secure an area near the Masjid Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch after the terror attack.

Too complex, no political will, too bad for rural NZ: The debates that scupper gun law reform in NZ

Poaching paua a family affair

A family of paua poachers were caught with hundreds of undersized paua in New Plymouth.

Three siblings could each be fined of up to $250,000 after being caught with a huge haul of undersized paua.

No clear view of fight

Nathan Graeme Hall.

Some crown witnesses in a manslaughter trial in Invercargill say they never witnessed the alleged assault of Chanel Henwood in its entirety. 

Charged over terror video

Philip Arps appeared in the Christchurch District Court on two charges of distributing a live stream of the mosque massacre.

Christchurch man Philip Arps remanded in custody after being charged with reposting live stream of terror attack. 

Police officer knocked out

The officer was allegedly assaulted and knocked unconscious while on duty in Otaika, Northland (file photo).

A man has been charged with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to a police officer.

Charge over 'upsetting' post

50 people were killed in the March 15 attacks on two Christchurch mosques.

A woman who posted on Facebook about the Christchurch shootings will be charged with inciting racial disharmony.

Crashed motorcyclist in court

Mitchell Ethan Falconer crashed his motorbike after fleeing police last month. He then hid from police in bushes for a ...

"You made a very poor decision," magistrate tells dairy farmer.

Baby had 40 broken bones

Hayden Anthony Gray is on trial in the Christchurch District Court after his four-week-old baby boy was seriously ...

Four-week old boy of former netballer had 40 broken bones when he was taken to Christchurch Hospital.

Police seek crash footage

Emergency services at the scene of the car crash in Queenstown that left a woman in critical condition.

Three people involved in a crash that left a woman critically injured have been identified.

Man charged with murder

Flowers and a red bandana are laid near the Vine Street shops in Mangere where Arthur Brown was killed.

The 20-year-old was arrested following the execution of a search warrant in the south Auckland area.

Killer driver pleads guilty

Legion Turner, 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving causing death over this crash on Hamilton's River Rd ...

A teenage driver has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a woman while he was trying to outrun the police.

'Frustrated' man breaks legs of crying babies

A 30-year-old man has been granted name suppression in the Timaru District Court after pleading guilty to two charges of ...

A 30-year-old South Canterbury man has admitted fracturing the legs of two newborn babies when he became "frustrated by their crying".

'Still broken' after death

The memorial service for Goran Milosavljevic.held shortly after his death

How a single punch outside a supermarket left two families without their fathers. One father was killed and the other, who threw the punch, is in prison

Wife died while checking on husband

Ansi Alibava died on Friday after she was shot outside the Al Noor Mosque during the terrorist attacks.

Ansi Alibava had escaped the Al Noor Mosque unharmed, but was shot when she ran back to check on her husband Abdul Nazer Ponnath Hamsa.

Killings show we're too soft

The evidence suggests the man accused of the Christchurch massacres chose New Zealand at least in part because its gun ...

OPINION: Deaths in both Upper Hutt and Christchurch show agencies have much to do if they are to regain our trust.

Tragedy confirms choice of cop career

Every time he hits the track David Faatoese's time improves.

"It's made me want to do it more": south Auckland crime-fighting student's resolve strengthened following Christchurch terror attack.

Accused shooter's tight security

Paremoremo Prison, north of Auckland, is the country's only maximum security prison.

The man accused of the Christchurch mosque shooting is not allowed access to newspapers or TV and radio - depriving him of the ability to read about the atrocity.

Sex worker 'extremely upset' after alleged rape

Norman Ariate Alonzo is on trial in the Palmerston North District Court, charged with raping a sex worker.

Woman who says she was raped at work thought about not complaining because of her job.

'It's my fault baby's dead'

Donna Catherine Parangi, pictured at a previous court appearance (FILE).

"Once in a blue moon" or every second day - defendant's synthetic cannabis use queried by police detective, court hears.

Dairy robbed 'to pay a debt'

Rubi Jayde Barker admitted a charge of armed robbery in the Christchurch District Court.

They took an imitation pistol and a serrated kitchen knife in a bid to steal cigarettes from a nearby dairy.

70-year-old admits violation of teen

Christchurch businessman Martin Leslie O'Neil admitted sexually violating a 14-year-old girl in the Christchurch ...

The offending was discovered when he accidentally left his camera in a car and the girl's father looked at it.

'I see the bodies falling'

Omar Abdel-Ghany says his father was "kindest, purest of souls".

After his father's phone went silent, Omar Abdel-Ghany turned to the terror attack video for proof of life.

Long goodbye nears end

David White published a second book in 2016 called Family Violence: Lifting New Zealand's Dark Cloud.

Anti-violence campaigner David White plans to end a tour of New Zealand by saying goodbye to his slain daughter.

Arrest after Muslim abused

George Te Amo, pictured leaving the Palmerston North District Court, is charged with intimidating a Muslim taxi driver.

The man allegedly called the taxi driver, who was taking a prayer break in his cab, a "terrorist".

DJ thought man had been knocked out

Nathan Graeme Hall.

A tussle between two men lasted seconds before one of them fell to the floor, and later died, at a birthday part in Invercargill in 2018. 

City man faces manslaughter charge

Nathan Graeme Hall.

An Invercargill man died about 30 minutes after being allegedly assaulted at a birthday party in the city last year. 

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