Two Salvation Army volunteers have been convicted of stealing groceries intended for the organisation's charity food bank.

A 22-year-old is charged with stealing an ambulance he had called for his friend, who had fractured his skull and vertebrae after falling 4m onto concrete.

The family of Sophie Elliott have no end in sight as a planned appeal by her killer, Clayton Weatherston, is delayed.

Doug Sherring fulfils a lifelong ambition on Wanaka's pristine backcountry slopes.

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.