Crown prosecutor details the background to a love triangle that she said ended in the defendants plotting and executing a bloody killing.

Police have charged a 49-year-old man in relation to an assault near Bluff on Sunday.

A man was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack after a dispute over cans of bourbon and cola, a court has heard.

Police remain tight-lipped about how the woman died and detectives from Invercargill are trying to piece together the hours which led up to her death.

A Tauranga doctor has been charged with the murder of his lover, Brisbane socialite and former model Maureen Boyce.

The doctor who formerly lived in the Bay of Plenty is charged with the murder of Australian socialite and former model Maureen Boyce.

The friend of a slain security guard hopes other young people are protected following a coroner's inquiry into the death of 22-year-old Charanpreet Singh Dhaliwal.

Bus and taxi drivers are being attacked so regularly ACC is having to pay out for violence-related claims nearly every week of the year.

13 years after the attack, Ms Butler was able to thank those who risked their own lives to save hers.

A former Australian Navy mechanic who reportedly confessed to three murders spent time in New Zealand. Australian police are seeking information on him.

The teenager found guilty of killing a West Auckland shopkeeper will have his name hidden from the public permanently.

Chris Brown's behaviour proves he doesn't deserve a ticket into New Zealand, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

The devastated mother of a Kiwi basketballer who narrowly survived yesterday's college massacre is rushing to be with her son.

Body parts bitten off, maimed from severe burns - experts believe the brutality of attacks on women by their male partners is worsening.

The day after Parmita Rani left her controlling husband, he waited in the foyer of her central-Auckland language school to stab her to death.

A former Immigration Minister says he would let Chris Brown into the country because it would cause no obvious harm.

South Africa's murder rate has increased for the third year running, with opposition groups saying the figures mirror "a country at war".

When his wife left him, Mandeep Singh bought knives and waited patiently in the foyer of her school until she finished her exam.

The man accused of murdering Christchurch toddler Ihaka Stokes will keep his name suppressed, for now.

Beating of Australian tourist by British man with criminal convictions highlights a ''leak'' in New Zealand's border protection system, lawyer says.

Police want the public's help after a man was seriously injured when two younger men attacked him in a small Southland town.

Michael Murray hit Morris on the head with a sickle-like tool. Morris died seconds later in his partner Millie Elder-Holmes' arms.

A 51-year-old man was found by members of the public after being assaulted in Nelson just after 2pm.

An Upper Hutt man says he will never forgive the man he considered his best friend after he killed his mother in a frenzied and brutal axe attack.

A man and woman charged after the death of Taupo preschooler Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri have had the charges upgraded from assault on a child to murder.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

Father says finding killer will always hinge on someone coming forward with information as Ewen McDonald's lawyer says family "wasting money".

Lawyer Peter Coles says he's not surprised Kylee Guy has run out of money investigating her husband's death because he says she's focusing on the wrong man.

The mother of slain teenager Luke Tipene faces the prospect of reliving her son's death all over again at a second trial.

The jury on the Luke Tipene murder trial has reached a stalemate and been discharged by the judge.