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'Felt like a gun to my head': Unvaccinated family carers win court case

A group of carers who lost their funding due to being unvaccinated have won their case.

Autistic man who bludgeoned love rival to death has appeal dismissed

The man bludgeoned a 19-year-old love rival as his partner slept next to him.

'I have to say what I know': Caregiver threatened to report lover's confession after toddler's violent death

The woman, who was Arapera Fia's primary caregiver, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Spending spree: Ministry purchases $4000 desks, $13,000 wardrobes

There was one picnic table but most of the new furniture was to furnish judges' chambers.

High Court upholds man's extradition to Australia over alleged machete attack

The man has been accused of attacking three men with a machete in a drug deal gone wrong.

Jurors listen to secretly recorded calls of murder accused sobbing after toddler's death

Two-year-old Arapera Fia arrived at hospital covered in bruises and with a brain injury.

Man who ‘received messages’ from Peaky Blinders stabbed woman to death, found insane

The man will now be held in hospital as a special patient.

Molotov-cocktail attack: Home detention bid rejected again

Fatima Ibrahim had hoped for home detention after two people were set on fire.

Jurors weep as prosecutors play murder accused's deleted video of 2yo days before death

Arapera Fia, 2, showed up at hospital covered in bruises and a fatal brain bleed.

Guilty of murder: Jury rejects manslaughter defence for killing of 16yo

The defendant admitted to manslaughter but said he didn't deserve the label 'murderer'.

Beaten, chained and dragged by a car: Farmers jailed for 'savage' murder of colleague

The men beat the father-of-three, chained him to a car, and dragged him 1km across gravel.

Husband guilty of trying to kill his wife by driving car over cliff

'If there's no you, there's no me,' the man said before driving his wife over the cliff.

Buried in the riverbank? Murder suspect had ‘highly-suitable location’ to conceal body of close friend, court hears

Body may have been 'flushed' away: Mike McGrath vanished in 2017, never to be seen again.

Watch: Tensions boil-over with patched gangsters as Mob boss jailed for 'cold-hearted' murder

The patched gangsters shouted the Nazi cry Sieg Heil as the gang president left court.

Tensions boil-over with patched gangsters as Mob boss jailed for 'cold-hearted' murder

The patched gangsters shouted the Nazi cry Sieg Heil as the gang president left court.

Notorious B.I.G. and e-scooter drug mules: The trial of Auckland Grammar boy turned alleged meth king

At one point, a detective read the lyrics of Notorious B.I.G's 'Ten Crack Commandments'.

'Incredibly stupid' or delusional? Jurors set to begin deciding fate of admitted strangulation killer

Trinity Oliver was killed in September 2021, but was it murder or manslaughter?

Guilty or not? Jury out on attempted murder trial in car over cliff case

"If there's no you, there's no me," the man allegedly said before driving off a cliff.