Amy Williams

A court that writes off charges for recurring low-level crime is helping Auckland's homeless off the streets and into work.

Te Kooti o Timatanga Hou - The Court of New Beginnings takes offenders… Audio

Auckland Council says it takes weeks to house rough sleepers and eliminating homelessness is an "unreasonable goal".

Business association Heart of the City wants more police on the beat and tougher… Audio

A family's worst fears were confirmed this morning when the body of Mei Han Chong was found abandoned in bush in suburban Auckland. Police commenced a desperate search for Ms Chong after her husband… Video, Audio

Police have arrested and charged a 42-year old man with the murder of an Auckland couple.

Sixty-six-year-old Fuk-Fu Kwok was found dead at his home in Ellerslie on Monday evening having suffered… Audio

It's been almost four years since the deadly Whakaari White Island eruption. Now the island's owners, the Buttles, are being held accountable for health and safety failings through their company… Audio

The owners of Whakaari White Island will learn this afternoon whether they breached workplace laws in the buildup to the deadly eruption in December 2019.

Twenty-two people were killed and 27 injured… Audio

It may be the land of snakes and spiders, but lucrative pay and housing packages are luring an unprecedented number of Kiwi police officers across the Tasman.

Figures from the Australian police show… Audio

Business owners in Auckland's city centre say anti-social behaviour has gotten out of control and they want rough sleepers and those drinking and drug dealing on the streets to be trespassed and moved… Audio

A Wellington homeowner awoken by a landslide crashing through her kitchen window a year ago is still battling to get her insurer to pay even a cent towards the huge costs of re-building a wrecked… Audio

Subcontractors still owed big chunks of money from construction firm Mainzeal's collapse a decade ago say they'll get a pittance back and do not believe justice has been served. Former Prime Minister… Audio

The agency investigating the deadly sinking of a charter boat off Northland's coast is calling for an urgent overhaul of the country's search and rescue operations. Only five of the ten men onboard… Video, Audio

Police are narrowing their search for long-time fugitive Tom Phillips, to small communities on Waikato's west coast, after he was spotted in disguise buying supplies two days ago. It's been 18 months… Audio

An Auckland community where a dairy worker died in a brutal attack last year, is bitterly disappointed it won't get government funding to prevent street-level crime.

The Sandringham Business… Audio

A reprieve from the rising cost of food can't come soon enough, but an economist is warning that removing GST is not the answer. National claims Labour plans to remove GST from fruit and vegetables if… Audio

Auckland's central city businesses are pumping more than half a million dollars into private security, to fight street crime like theft, burglary and assault.

Their association, Heart of the City… Audio

A leading volcanologist says the exact time and day of an eruption cannot be predicted, but volcanic activity had picked up in the months leading to the deadly Whakaari White Island eruption. Dr Gill… Audio

A young Australian who was the only member of his family to survive injuries from the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019 has described a lack of information about the dangers for tourists visiting… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Families of those who lost their lives in the deadly Whakaari eruption were among those acknowledged a mihi whakatau today, to herald the start of a trial over health and safety failings leading up to… Audio