A woman involved in a 2018 kidnapping and murder can now be named — seven years after the crime took place.Marica Toalei’s attempt to maintain name suppression ended in the Supreme Court this month.Toalei was 16 years old when she and two others kidnapped Dimetrius Pairama in an abandoned Māngere…

A Married at First Sight bride has accused her on-air husband of lying in his application for protection against her, which she claims he lodged out of retaliation.Ryan Donnelly and Jacqui Burfoot were paired together in the most recent season of the hit Australian reality TV series but chose to…

More than a month after Abdul Nabizadah was killed it can now be revealed he may have been the victim of a robbery gone wrong.Five weeks on from his father’s death, John Nabizadah struggles to sleep. He wakes up to four times a night, unable to get two burning thoughts…

“Woke barrel-hugging piece of scum.”It’s one of the latest insults sent to Selwyn District councillor Shane Epiha who says he is fed up with the insidious actions of faceless bullies.Epiha (Ngāpuhi, Waikato, and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri) had already decided not to run for a third term on council, but…

A seven-year-old Dunedin boy who died after a car crash in the Catlins has been described as a “bright, loving, and adventurous little boy”.Police have named O’siah Prasad as the boy who died after a single-vehicle crash at Ōwaka last month.More than $10,000 has been donated to honour his memory…

There’s been a tearful closing day to the coroner’s inquest into the death of Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore.Her family have sat through more than three weeks of evidence, in Hamilton and now Christchurch, her father Philip Podmore struggling with emotion as he talked of what they’ve learned about Olivia’s time…

The Government has revealed the “emerging preferred corridor” for the Northland Expressway with ministers looking to construct a new highway over the Brynderwyn Hills rather than bypassing them.The NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) has investigated options to replace the slip-prone section of State Highway 1 as part of the…

Several staff members at Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison were assaulted in two violent incidents over the weekend, in what’s been called a “nasty and calculated” attack. A prisoner allegedly hit a staff member with a sandwich press and threw hot water at three others in one attack, according to Corrections.…

Kiwis’ chances of winning tonight’s $23 million Powerball jackpot remain exactly the same as any other draw, despite misconceptions about how to improve the odds.The Powerball draw rolled over to $23 million last week after no tickets won the jackpot on April 16. It’s the largest jackpot since a New…

Cabinet is moving to simplify regulations for Early Childhood Education centres by the end of this year.Regulation Minister David Seymour held a media briefing about the changes on Wednesday morning.He will introduce an amendment bill in July, the result of his review into the ECE sector, which made 15 recommendations…