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A forensic pathologist called by the defence in the murder trial of an Auckland eye surgeon, said he would have concluded Pauline Hanna's was a suicide if he was responsible for the case.

The transport system kills thousands of people prematurely each year, and the government's new transport plan will only make that worse, an Otago University academic says.

A man was killed and three people wounded in Auckland, in what police say was a fight between two groups that started as broken windows and escalated.

Fire and Emergency NZ has run out of money to give firefighters more lifesaving gas monitors, with the project only half done.

It is believed a person has been fatally shot in an inner Auckland suburb tonight.

Bluey Duncan is upset after his Mazda Demio was stolen from a Canterbury rest home car park and then dumped in the Waipara River.

A woman relentlessly demanding the return of her animals involved in an investigation has repeatedly failed in her appeals and has been told she is abusing the court system.