Zarn Tarapata has been found guilty of the murders of two store workers.

An assault in central Hamilton yesterday afternoon was not gang-related, police say.

Immediate changes to victim notification processes have been made after a man shopping at the supermarket ran into the man who stabbed him.

A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attempting to kill another man in central Auckland last week will lose name suppression on Thursday.

The 22-year-old man who was stabbed alongside Parmita Rani at an central Auckland international school is in a stable condition.

Classmates of the woman thought to be the victim of the stabbing at an international school in central Auckland yesterday have paid tribute online.

A man has appeared in the Auckland District Court this morning charged with the murder of a woman in the central city yesterday.

Two days shy of the anniversary of her death, the family of Blessie Gotingco found justice.

Jury in Blessie murder trial retires to consider its verdict after accused jumped up during the judge's summing up and barged his way back to the holding cells.

The man accused of raping and murdering Blessie Gotingco has launched a barrage of expletives in court while under cross-examination.

The man accused of raping and murdering Blessie Gotingco will tell the jury he was desperately looking for methamphetamine at the time of the alleged killing.

Five men have now been charged with murder following the shooting of James Whatuira in Woodville in January.

A New Zealander with a child on the way has died after what his family say was an unprovoked attack outside a bar in a small Western Australian town.

The jury in the Blessie Gotingco murder trial has heard about another knife found buried in the defendant’s garden.

One of two men killed in a pawn shop called for help and may have hid from his attacker, a court has heard.

One of two men killed in a pawn shop called for help and may have hid from his attacker, a court has heard.

An ESR scientist has told the jury at the Blessie Gotingco murder trial that male DNA found at the scene showed it was 280 times more likely to have come from the defendant.

Two pawn shop workers were stabbed to death as they ate lunch in the back room of a Takanini shop, a High Court jury has heard.

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested following an assault in Kaikohe that was filmed and posted online.

Two men have been sentenced for assaulting cricketer Jesse Ryder in a Christchurch bar.

The judge in the Blessie Gotingco murder trial will take the rare step of asking each jury member whether they can be impartial after they have heard all the evidence.

A police officer says he found a "heavily bloodstained" car part hidden in the garage of the man accused of killing Blessie Gotingco.

The story about the Blessie Gotingco case, which ran in an overseas publication, contained several comments that could result in the trial being aborted.

A pathologist found that Blessie Gotingco was stabbed in the neck so violently, links of her necklace embedded in the depths of the wound, a court has heard.

A woman has been sentenced to home detention and community work in relation to the death of a Lower Hutt man earlier this year.

A police crash expert told a court he believed Blessie Gotingco was hit by a car while she was walking along a suburban pavement.

A group of men who saw a young woman being attacked say they were so angry they had no qualms about chasing the attacker.

Gable Tostee, is accused of murdering Warriena Wright, who fell to her death from his 14th storey balcony last year, has lost his bid for early release on driving charges.

Two more people accused of murdering Wellington man Matthew Stevens have pleaded not guilty today.

A blue tarpaulin covers the backyard of a South Auckland house where a woman was allegedly stabbed to death last night.