#OpenJustice

A man who held a woman hostage at gunpoint during a 15-hour standoff with police appeared before the Parole Board from a room at a Canterbury prison.

A man who held a woman hostage at gunpoint during a 15-hour standoff with police has appeared before the Parole Board from a room at Rolleston Prison.

A man who once raped a teenage hitchhiker and more recently owned a pack of starving dogs that killed someone has now been convicted for sexually...

A deputy principal used dark humour as an outlet but took it too far when saying "if it’s old enough to bleed, it’s old enough to breed" about a...

A woman high on methamphetamine stole a car before discovering it had a baby strapped in the back seat, so she pulled over, left the infant on the...

An early childhood relief teacher who kissed a 3-year-old on the lips can now be named.

An early childhood relief teacher who kissed a 3-year-old on the lips can now be named.

In what varied between harmless, bizarre and vulgar, a man with a penchant for impersonating police used his facade to reel in unsuspecting teen...

A teenage girl who sought a shoulder to cry on after breaking up with her boyfriend was then raped by the man consoling her.

Gloriavale teacher Vigilant Standtrue appeared for sentencing in the Christchurch District Court on representative charges of assault with a blunt...

A bus driver shut off the indoor lights of his bus late one night, refused to open the doors and asked a lone passenger if he could kiss her hand....

Gloriavale teacher Vigilant Standtrue used a pitchfork, stick, pipe, axe handle, broom handle and shovel handle to assault multiple boys. One of...

A teacher has described the moment he thought he was going to die while trying to save students on a deadly trip to Abbey Caves. Speaking publicly...

A teenager was raped by a man she shared a pizza with after following him to his house where the pair shared alcohol before she became drunk and...

A teenager was raped by a man she shared a pizza with after following him to his house where the pair shared alcohol before she became drunk and...

On the night before a fatal school caving trip, MetService escalated its weather warning to severe and parents fired off urgent emails to the...

After a series of burnouts, toots and taunts, a carload of young people turned up to a farmer's property for a fourth time, but this time he...

Tensions ran high at the sentencing of a motorist who fatally struck an 18-year-old doing a wheelie on a dirt bike at an intersection. Amal Salad,...

The remains of a man who was shot dead at his rural property were first spotted in the burned-out ruins of his home by locals.

A teenager who was allegedly raped by a man she met on Ferry Rd told police she remembers feeling pain, crying and screaming during the ordeal.