Coroner's report into the August 2013 murder suicide which shocked New Zealand is released.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested with the murder of Dunedin woman Karin Ann Ross.

Man accused of stabbing the woman to death in Wellington is in custody awaiting a mental health assessment.

A house in Kaikorai belonging to the co-worker of woman who was killed in Dunedin last week has been searched by police.

It is almost 18 months since Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail, a military attache, attacked Wellington woman Tania Billingsley in her home.

Police have confirmed they are treating the "unexplained" death of Karin Ann Ross in Dunedin as a homicide.

Roofer Troy Taylor was the boyfriend of the 15-month-old boy's mother.

The shooting in San Bernardino yesterday, where 14 people died, brought the number of mass shootings in the US to 355 this year.

The family of one of two shooters who opened fire at a Southern Californian disability centre say they have no idea why he took part in the massacre.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after two stabbings in Hamilton yesterday, one of which left a man with life-threatening injuries.

Police say a shopkeeper was injured during an attack in central Auckland involving a knife.

Legal expenses at the Mark Lundy retrial have topped $2 million and the bill for the entire case is three times that amount.

Scott Watson has spoken for the first time about the murders he was convicted of. Ben Smart and Olivia Hope went missing in 1998 and were never found.

An elderly man suffered head injuries when an armed bandit broke into his home and assaulted him.

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.

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.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a 28-year-old man died in hospital following an incident at an Invercargill property.

Police have launched a homicide inquiry after a man was killed in Invercargill tonight.

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.

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

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.