New Zealand

The company behind the flawed Novopay system has sent a number of schools the wrong emails about yet-to-be-processed actions regarding their payrolls.

A climber suffered head injuries when he fell about 100m from Mt Awful in Mt Aspiring National Park this morning.

Air New Zealand said Friday that one of its pilots fell into a deep sleep while at the controls of an international flight but insisted that safety aboard the aircraft was never compromised, AFP reports.

A smooth-talking conman who stole about $1.4 million from his 20 mostly vulnerable victims has been handed a five year prison sentence.

Fires are blazing on Waiheke Island and in Canterbury's Selwyn district today, with properties being threatened.

Five people appeared in Masterton District Court this morning in connection with the brutal death of Featherston man Glen Jones.

Medical experts in New Zealand are bracing themselves for the arrival of a deadly flu that is sweeping the US which has already killed 20 children.

Police are searching for a man who drifted away from a group of friends while swimming at Himatangi Beach.

A new cyclone forming in the Coral Sea in the Pacific could track towards New Zealand, bringing the same conditions with it as the recent Cyclone Evan, forecasters say.

The cyclone, which has yet to be formally named, was discovered by the Fijian meteorological service.

Police have found the body of a 24-year-old male tourist who went missing while canoeing on Lake Te Anau.

Conman Loizos Michaels spent more than a year-and-a-half in an Australian jail for fraud before he came to New Zealand where he carried out more, "motivated by naked greed''.

Amanda Kennedy stared down the killer who took the life of her friend and flatmate.

The school teacher had just finished delivering her emotional victim impact statement at the High Court at Auckland when she passed Kit John Murray as he sat in the dock. She looked him in the eye, and as she did so, Murray's eyes dropped to the ground.