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The defence lawyer says the forensic scientist was told by police to conduct the examination on the basis of a homicide.

Wellington City Council's response to deaths and incidents on the capital's waterfront promenade has come under fire ahead of a coroner's inquest into the death of Sandy Calkin.

Although some details were blurry and she conceded there were things she had forgotten, the complainant said she knew she did not have consensual sex.

She was sentenced to 18 years in prison in June.

Philip Polkinghorne denies killing his wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home in 2021.

Midwives are taking on the government in court after what they claim has been nearly a decade of broken promises to pay and support them properly.

Lachie Jones' father, Paul Jones, said he would go into the second phase of the inquest into his son's death with more confidence after newly discovered messages came to light.

The Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority has cancelled John Doherty's licence, after he also emailed the police with a proposal that he go undercover and conduct private investigations on…

The six-week trial of a retired eye surgeon began in the High Court in Auckland this week. Here's what we know so far.

Four women are on trial for the death of Rau Tongia, who died in his Karori home in December 2020.

A witness says she remembers a man accused of multiple rapes telling her to stop crying after she woke to find him on top of her.

A police officer has described what he saw at the scene of Pauline Hanna's death

A man on trial for more than 30 charges of sexual assault is accused of raping women who were so drunk they had been vomiting or were unconscious.

The man accused of murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide told police the couple were sleeping in separate rooms at the time of her death.

A medic has told the High Court in Auckland John Polkinghorne was calm after Pauline Hanna's death, but that changed when he made a phone call.