The Ministry of Education has been included in the inquiry into the Phillips case, but some say issues go beyond one case.

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Media organisations have been granted a judicial review of reporting restrictions that were made in the Family Court ...

New Zealand police released pictures of a newly discovered second campsite where fugitive Tom Phillips was hiding out with his children, saying he clearly had “outside help” during his four years on ...

A fugitive father who spent nearly four years on the run with his three young children was killed during a police shootout in New Zealand on Monday, bringing an end to one of the country’s most ...

A father who had been on the run with his three young children through New Zealand’s remote wilderness for the past four years was shot dead Monday in a shootout with cops during an attempted burglary ...

One of Tom Phillips' children was taken into police custody following the shooting, and the other two children remain missing Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...