Mike Mather

He ran world-renowned businesses catering for thrill-seeking tourists, but all the while Alastair MacDonald was seeking out his own horrific and criminal form of thrills.

“You understood you were stabbing your husband, but were incapable of knowing such [a thing] was morally wrong,” the judge said.

A Hamilton teenager charged with manslaughter over a crash in which a pedestrian was killed on a suburban city road will fight his charges.

It's known to most of the country as Labour Weekend, but over in the Waikato's west coast idyll the upcoming three-day break goes by the name of Raglan Arts Weekend.

Cornered as he tried to walk out of a supermarket with bags full of stolen groceries, Gavin Burns reached for a can of deodorant.

A young woman has been forced to delete all of her social media accounts and leave her job after her personal details were shared online - along with a video of her having phone sex.

His biggest claim to infamy might have been stealing bicycles, but Anthony Golding was not above swiping the cars of elderly women - in this case a rare Holden Commodore - when the opportunity arose.

The managers of a Hamilton property maintenance firm used GPS tracking to identify a staff member who swiped $17,231 worth of tools and other equipment to feed his gambling habit.

Police have charged a woman who is the subject of a Givealittle cancer support page with providing false documents claiming she has the illness as she and her husband remain overseas on other charges.

A woman simply trying to get her laundry dry found herself the subject of some unwanted advances by Hamilton man Junior Waihape - who then sexually assaulted her.