1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (402+ words) Is sport the answer to cutting youth crime and re-offending by tamariki? This week, the government announced it's giving almost $2.5 million to six community sport and outdoor programmes as part of the government's wider goal to reduce serious and persistent…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (803+ words) Australia's banks have been defrauded of more than $600 million by one of the country's largest fraud syndicates, NSW Police says. Police yesterday charged three people with allegedly assisting the multi-million dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate, including a Bankstown accounting…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1022+ words) The lawyer for a man accused of double murder has pointed blame at the other man there on the night of the killings. Lok Fung Lorrence Li is on trial in the High Court at Auckland. He is accused of…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (397+ words) Rangatahi are serving an "invisible sentence" after a parent goes to prison - and might soon have a navigator dedicated to helping them through the process. Charity Pillars Kapo Whakaho will be rolling out a new five-year pilot with three whānau…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (786+ words) When a supervised visit with her one-year-old son did not go as a young mother had hoped, she spiralled into destruction. The child was not engaging with her and the 21-year-old was devastated, prompting her to end the visit early…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (396+ words) A psychologist has been described as having emotionally exploited a vulnerable man after she entered into a sexual relationship with him while he was a client. The intimate encounters began after the man attended an ACC-funded retreat co-facilitated by the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (259+ words) An Auckland woman has been spared imprisonment for tax offending because her children have special needs - but her husband has not been as fortunate. Faalili Vaa and his wife Belinda Heilupe Vaa were found by the court to be equally…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (81+ words) RNZ RNZ understands the deaths of a man and a woman in a shooting in Nelson are being treated as a murder-suicide. Brendon and Nicola Perry died in the shooting in Parkers Road in Tāhunanui last Friday. The alarm was…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (577+ words) Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby is routinely ranked high on international lists of the most dangerous cities. But despite its law and order challenges, Moresby is also a place of growth which has a lot going on - from cultural…...