28 JULY 2009 - Labour's Associate Justice Spokesperson Charles Chauvel plans to lay a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner over Paula Bennett's clumsy and vindictive attempts to silence her critics.

28 JULY 2009 - Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage Christopher Finlayson announced today the reappointment of the chair and the appointment of four new members to the board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Auckland, July 28 NZPA - The son of an elderly man killed in an Auckland road rage incident says he cannot forgive the man who admitted responsibility for his death today.

Wellington, July 28 NZPA - A man whose kick broke his three-year-old son's leg was convicted when he appeared in Blenheim District Court yesterday.Otto Lereiti Misivila, 51, had admitted kicking out at his son with a socked foot to halt

Wellington, July 28 NZPA - A woman went on trial yesterday charged with the murder of a toddler in Bay of Plenty more than three years ago.Melissa Sale died in Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital on January 8, 2006, four days

Oamaru, July 28 NZPA - Police officers told a depositions hearing in Oamaru today that they "stared death in the eye" during an alleged crime spree by a Palmerston North couple.

28 JULY 2009 - Waikato Police have established a cordon around a property in northern Huntly as they seek to establish what occurred at a Kihikihi address earlier this morning.

28 JULY 2009 - Police in Palmerston North are investigating the aggravated robbery of a dairy.

28 JULY 2009 - Council staff are surprised at the number of dogs that are still unregistered in Southland.

28 JULY 2099 - Three hospitality students from the New Zealand Defence Force Joint Services Catering School (NZDF) are preparing to defend NZDF's title as the current holder of the prestigious Nestl Toque d'Or Award.

28 JULY 2009 - In response to a number of media enquiries and calls to our free phone line, Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff, has made the following comments about the recent release of personal information about two beneficiaries.

Auckland, July 29 NZPA - Closing arguments on behalf of former MP Taito Phillip Field are expected to finish in the High Court at Auckland today.

Style Palace shopper, Frankie, recently purchased the Wayne Cooper Memory Taffeta Dress and sent in a pic of her looking gorgeous at the races wearing her new purchase. She also made the final 10 in Fashions of the Field -

WORRIES for the safety of wayward skydivers is just one of the concerns that has led Hobart to blow away a proposal to install wind-turbine power generators on a CBD rooftop.

AN elderly woman fell in her toilet, then spent a week trapped there before a neighbour heard her cries for help.

OPPOSITION Leader Malcolm Turnbull is confident of a Coalition victory at the next election, despite disastrously low opinion polls.

MELBOURNE man Shane Kent pleaded guilty to being involved in preparing a terrorist act.

Todd Parnell's life support turned offAllegedly king hit at birthday partyWas part of NRL team's youth squad

A PERTH mother who sexually abused her disabled teenage daughter has been jailed along with a male co-offender after the chance finding of video footage in a police search.

TWO youths have pushed a blind woman to the ground, robbed her and dragged her along the street outside her Perth home, police say.