A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a string of aggravated robberies at Lower Hutt shops this morning.

A professional thief who burgled John Key's multimillion-dollar mansion is on the run.

Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.

A former Auckland University student will have to serve 13 years in an American jail after pleading guilty to attacking a 35-weeks pregnant woman with a Taser in the United States

Offers of money, free accommodation, clothes, food and even a paraglider have been pouring in for Canadian Caitlin Hardie.