One of the boys was grabbed around the throat and slapped in the face.

Episode 28 of Herald podcast A Moment In Crime revisits murder of Emma Agnew.

Students were hiding under desks after school went into lockdown.

Jason Hikaka denies raping a woman in her home, claiming the sex was consensual.

Children had to wait in locked car until passed-out mother woke up, court told.

The key messages coming from New Zealand's young offenders.

Gang member had evaded the armed offenders squad.

A liquor store in Takanini is the latest store to be hit by ram-raiders.

The sad life and terrible death of Martin Berry revealed after killer sentenced to prison

Haami Hanara was just 14-years-old when he murdered Kelly Donner.

Authorities allege Fang Sun stabbed his ex-business partner to death in her bedroom.

Matakaua (Karl) Ngaruaine Rouvi has "limited understanding" of his risks.

Witness says family coped with dementia issues as they came up, with lock and a wetsuit.

Coleen Rooney has accused Rebecca Vardy of leaking stories about her to the press.

A woman who murdered her partner and dumped his body in the garden in Chch is jailed

Justice Jonathan Eaton sentences Rena Joyce to life in prison with a non-parole period of 13 years and nine months. Video / Pool

Martin Berry's sister Joanna Statham said the images she had in her head of his final seconds haunted her. Video / George Heard

Dargaville pensioner's tenancy dispute less serious than comparable Kainga Ora cases

Judge Frances Eivers says child welfare and criminality are social issues.

The prisoner was in a mental health unit when he was allegedly pepper sprayed.

The couple even snuck her dogs into the home they broke into.

Fang Sun is on trial for murder in the High Court at Auckland.

It follows a ram-raid at a dairy in Halswell on Friday.

Shooter's macabre Twitch livestream killing spree footage banned in NZ.

Hugh James Robinson was jailed for four years for conspiring to deal in party pills.

Pair charged following Parliamentary riot keep names suppressed, partly due to safety.

A vehicle thought to be involved in a burglary in Silverdale was stopped in West Auckland.

It follows a ram-raid at a dairy in Halswell on Friday.

Shooter's macabre Twitch livestream killing spree footage banned in NZ.

Hugh James Robinson was jailed for four years for conspiring to deal in party pills.

Pair charged following Parliamentary riot keep names suppressed, partly due to safety.

A vehicle thought to be involved in a burglary in Silverdale was stopped in West Auckland.

Thieves have used a stolen excavator to ram-raid a Wainuiomata service station. Video / Chris Bishop

Police: "Someone in the close-knit Wainuiomata community will know who did this."

Following the burglary, authorities stopped a car from heading onto the wrong side of the motorway in Henderson, West Auckland. Video / Hayden Woodward

Payton Gendron had declared he would shoot up a school and was sent for mental treatment.

"If I die tonight this will sit with you."

One man wore a batman mask and wielded a hammer.

'There are distressing similarities to the 15 March mosque attack in Christchurch.'

The vehicle smashed a hole in the wall that had been boarded up after previous raid.

Former TVNZ cameraman Joseph Day was found dead in the UK a fortnight ago.

Levonia Store is the latest in a string of robberies targeting dairies.

The Act Party claims the laws will 'create a divided and hateful society'.