Ric Stevens

An unrepentant and high-risk convicted rapist put a razor blade in his mouth in a bid to stop prison officers moving him to a different unit.

"Good art will provoke thought. It provoked me to think that maybe I should pick this up."

The little girl was sitting on a loose plywood platform on the quad bike driven by her father when she fell into the path of a mower being towed behind

Matete, the first woman sentenced to preventive detention and now identifying as male, has been refused parole as risk assessments continue.

Authorities are making legal moves to confiscate the gang pad in Mataura, Southland.

Olson Canatoy and Eric Dabalos had been warned about the dangers of Papanui Point.

And an earlier mix-up had led to her sister being prepared for surgery as well.

Aaron Matthews came up gasping and struggling to breathe on a beach.

The director of a labour supply company for the horticultural industry, raped two vulnerable foreign workers after manipulating and "trapping" one of them, and drugging the other.