Court

One of Jason Tuitama's victims was taken to hospital in critical condition and died.

Companies convicted of health and safety failings in the lead up to the Whakaari / White Island eruption will be sentenced in the Auckland District Court today.

Five Christchurch teenagers involved in a string of "highly premeditated and extremely violent" attacks on gay men have been sentenced to supervision and ordered to pay reparations.

A homeless man who caused the evacuation of Auckland's Albert Park said he intended to detonate a bomb.

Survivors of the Whakaari White Island disaster will give accounts of how the tragedy forever changed their lives, when the sentencing of companies guilty of safety failings starts today.

A former youth running coach and scout leader has seemingly confessed from behind bars that there may be up to 150 unaccounted victims of his sexual offending.

A man who held an elderly woman at knifepoint in her retirement village home and stole her car has been sentenced to five years and seven months in prison.

The man charged with indecent assault after an attack in a South Auckland park is now facing more charges related to another incident last year.

Dunedin teacher Carole Coade has been named and sentenced to a minimum of 11 years behind bars.

But the man did not know he was suspected of the violent incident in Perth in 2014.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case against some of New Zealand's biggest polluters in what some describe as judicial activism

WorkSafe has dropped charges against the police after a traffic camera operator was injured in a car crash.

Far-right activist Kyle Chapman has avoided jail, telling a court he now wants to be a father first.

A legal expert says "complacency" within WorkSafe prevented the agency from achieving a better result during the Whakaari/White Island trial.

Mark Cummings knows what it's like to go up against the system, and lose.