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Queenstown hospitality venues are finding ways to deal with the boil water notice, as tourists stream in for the school holidays. There have now been 31 confirmed cases of the cryptosporidium gastro… Audio

A Queenstown resident says it's disgraceful slash dumped from a gondola redevelopment has damaged historical graves.

Torrential rain caused logs and mud to crash through a third of Queenstown… Audio

People across the North Island are picking up the pieces after gale force winds reaching up to 246 kilometres per hour tore through the country Roofs were lifted, windows smashed and powerlines… Audio

A former patient's experience in Christchurch's worn out, cramped mental health facilities for young people is driving him to help raise the funds needed for an upgrade.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder… Audio

A pathway into work in Canterbury's health system for Maori and Pasifika has been so successful, whanau and friends of participants are signing up to new intakes. Whakamana Whanau aims to get people… Video, Audio

The Government says new grocery rules will stop the abuse of power by the country's supermarket duopoly. Foodstuffs and Woolworths will no longer be able to decide when to pay suppliers, reject fresh… Video, Audio

You are not men of good character, you are sexual predators. The judge's words were met with applause as he handed down sentences to the brothers who raped, assaulted, drugged and filmed their… Audio

The two brothers who routinely drugged and committed sexual offences against dozens of victims at Christchurch bar Mama Hooch are being sentenced Thursday.

Danny and Roberto Jaz used their positions… Audio

Immense sadness, a sombre cloud, acceptance and healing. That's how some of the Timaru community have described the journey they've been on since three little girls were found dead in their home, just… Audio

Guilty of three counts of murder. A jury this afternoon handed down its verdicts in the Lauren Dickason trial; ruling she'd intentionally killed her three young daughters in September 2021. Dickason… Video, Audio

The jury in the High Court trial of Lauren Dickason, has spent much of the day deliberating its verdict. Mrs Dickason is charged with murdering her three girls. She has pleaded not guilty, with her… Video, Audio

The jury in the murder trial of Lauren Dickason has asked to re-watch her police interview from the day after she killed her three children. The mother, has been on trial at the High Court in… Audio

The leader of the Gloriavale Christian Community has been charged with sexual offending against girls over a period of more than 20 years. Overseeing Shepherd Howard Temple appeared at the Greymouth… Video, Audio

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The High Court in Christchurch has heard Lauren Dickason relied on her husband to help manage her depression and anxiety.

But the couple's… Audio

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The High Court in Christchurch has heard what was going through Lauren Dickason's mind in the lead up to killing her children.

She's on trial for the murder… Audio

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Lauren Dickason's own mother has told the court she seemed absent in the final months before she left Pretoria, South Africa, for Timaru.

Wendy Fawkes gave… Audio

A warning, parts of this next story are distressing. Lauren Dickason sobbed in the High Court hearing the recording of her police interview, in which she discusses killing her three daughters.

Mrs… Audio

Lauren Dickason had searched how to cause child drug overdoses in the weeks leading up to the deaths of her three young daughters. A warning, this story contains distressing content. Mrs Dickason… Video, Audio

Warning this story contains distressing content.

"She's done this to hurt me" are some of the first words from Lauren Dickason's husband after finding his three young daughters dead in their beds.

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