11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (113+ words) A man has been taken to hospital after a shark attack in Western Australia. The state government and local ambulance service said the man, in his 50s, was attacked by a shark on Glenfield Beach in Geraldton, about 400km north of Perth....

12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (910+ words) For months, a woman moved from store to store stealing thousands of dollars of goods while battling the grip of addiction and a mind she says she could no longer control. It was Crystal Jones’ own description of hearing voices,…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago   (840+ words) Days before mental health patient Zakariye Hussein murdered mother of four Laisa Waka as she returned to her family home after work, he threatened to kill another patient at his secure unit. He also made “threats” and carried out “serious…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago   (119+ words) A man suffered serious injuries and a dog was hurt after an assault at a Kaikohe home on Sunday. Police encouraged people to come forward with information, Detective Sergeant Bart Graham from the Northland criminal investigation branch (CIB) said. Emergency…...

15+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1796+ words) Two people missing, one taken to hospital after boat capsizes at Tangimoana Beach Nearly four years after Christchurch mother Laisa Waka was stabbed to death metres from her home by an enraged mental health patient, a coronial inquest beginning today…...

17+ hour, 29+ min ago   (1210+ words) Murray Sakey was convicted of child sex abuse in the Auckland District Court in September 2026. An Auckland jury has found former Kelston Boys’ High School teacher and published author Murray Sakey guilty of sexually abusing two boys. The jury of…...

18+ hour ago   (94+ words) One person has been injured after an alleged stabbing on the main street of a Canterbury township. Emergency services were called to the incident on Main St, in Fairlie, about 2.15am on Saturday. Hato Hone St John responded with an ambulance…...

18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (96+ words) A police investigation is underway after a man turned up at an Auckland hospital with a gunshot wound overnight. Detective Inspector Karen Bright said the injured man presented at Middlemore Hospital last night with an unexplained gunshot wound. “He received…...

22+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1736+ words) WARNING: This story contains details that may be distressing A woman who is serving a prison sentence for child torture – having forced a boy to eat faeces, burned him with boiling water and encouraged him to commit suicide, among other…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (138+ words) A Tauranga man has been charged in relation to damage to political hoardings in Pāpāmoa. Police say reports were received after hoardings were damaged on Parton Rd about 6.30am on Thursday. About 30 hoardings of various kinds were reported damaged across Pāpāmoa…...