Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries
A Blenheim based fishing company and its director have been sentenced under the Fisheries Act 1996 after pleading guilty to making false and misleading statements on fishing returns and documents relating to fishing trips made over a 17 month period from May 2010 to September 2011. Read more »

Press Release – Wellington City Council
A burst watermain on Waikowhai Street in Ngaio has meant that water will be out in the Wellington suburbs of Crofton Downs, Ngaio and Khandallah for about five hours this evening. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A 63 year old woman has died following a large landslide near Kaiteriteri today. Emergency services were alerted about 1.15pm today and on arrival discovered a badly damaged house, on the Kaiteriteri-Sandy Bay road, Kaiteriteri. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A 36-year-old man pleaded guilty in Wellington today to six representative charges of making intimate covert recordings of females in public, in private residential properties and of people known to him. He was remanded on bail and will be sentenced in the Wellington High Court on 24 July. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Porirua Police are investigating a stabbing incident at the Waitangirua Mall last night. Read more »

Press Release – Financial Markets Authority
Charges were yesterday laid in the Wellington District Court against David Robert Gilmour Ross (63). The charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allege he operated a $400 million Ponzi scheme. They follow a joint agency investigation between SFO and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Read more »

News from NZ Police
Wellington Police have referred the death of 33-year-old Senzeni Tamarah MLOTSHWA, known as Tamarah, to the Coroner. Based on the scene examination undertaken and toxicology results, Police do not believe her death is suspicious. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A post mortem on the body of Adam Morehu, who was fatally shot by police at the weekend, has been completed in Wellington. The results have identified two fatal gun shot wounds to Mr Morehu’s torso. Read more »

Report from BusinessDesk
The former directors of failed lender Lombard Finance & Investments are going to the Supreme Court in a final bid to overturn their convictions for making untrue statements in an offer document. Read more »

Press Release – Family First
Family First NZ is slamming a decision by a Wellington District Court judge to dismiss charges against a grossly drunk mother who endangered the lives of her two boys in a potential house fire. Read more »

Press Release – Life Flight Trust
A man in his 20s was rescued this morning after he had fallen down a steep cliff 3 kilometres north of Makara Beach. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Hawke’s Bay Police have commenced a homicide investigation following the discovery of the body of a 48 year old wom an at a residential address in Havelock North at around 10pm last night. Read more »

News from Immigration NZ
Yao Wen Jiang, a company director, was fined $20,100 in Wellington District Court today for offences against immigration legislation relating to exploitation of unlawful workers. Read more »

News from Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council staff and contractors are working around the Kingston landslide to put in temporary measures to minimise the effects of heavy rain expected with a southerly change today. Read more »

News from NZ Police at 3.59pm
There has been a head-on crash on the Manakau rail over-bridge on State Highway 1 in the Horowhenua District. Read more »

Press Release – Life Flight Trust
The Westpac rescue helicopter this afternoon rescued two Wellington women from a cliff on the Wairarapa South Coast. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
A huge slip is threatening several houses in Kingston. Read more »

News from NZ Police
The 23-year-old man who was stabbed at a Rodrigo Road address on Tuesday night has been charged with with aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon. At a bed-side Court hearing today, he was remanded in custody and will reappear in the Wellington District Court on 14 June. Read more »