Domestic violence charges against Chinese millionaire Donghua Liu have been dropped.

The oldest of two young boys accused of killing dairy owner Arun Kumar will not testify for his own defence.

A man who was allegedly chased away by neighbours has been charged after a 73-year-old woman was assaulted in her Auckland home.

A jury has been told the circumstantial Crown case over the murder of Cissy Chen relies on “reasoning by inference” but was warned by a judge to avoid speculation.

A man has suffered serious head injuries after an assault on Sunday evening.

The lawyer for Cissy Chen's partner said the case against his client was "100-per-cent circumstantial" and argued the pair had a loving relationship.

Any alternative explanations to Cissy Chen's partner deliberately killing her are "fanciful", the Crown has said while closing its case.

Police are yet to make an arrest after a man was seriously assaulted in Wellington last night.

The family of slain dairy owner Arun Kumar will privately mark the first anniversary of his death today.

A boy who was with a couple of teens before they allegedly killed an Auckland dairy owner will continue to give evidence today.

A boy who was with two teens before they allegedly killed a West Auckland dairy owner has described seeing one of the alleged weapons stuck to a household fridge.

A boy who was with two teens before they allegedly killed a West Auckland dairy owner says trails of blood led police to the defendant’s front door.

The wife of a man who was stabbed to death in his own shop has broken down in court while recounting the moment she saw blood “pouring out” of his neck wound.

Charges have not been laid against a man who stabbed a 40-year-old Mount Manganui man in the chest during a confrontation.

An Auckland dairy owner’s wife watched in horror as her husband bled to death on the floor of the shop they had owned for five years.

A police officer has denied a domestic assault charge against his partner and will go to trial.

Overblown fears of violent crime will inhibit our enjoyment of the world and invariably feed policies that create more, not fewer, victims, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attempting to kill a man in central Auckland last week can now be named.

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 son of a Kiwi businessman murdered in Bali snubbed his mother, who is accused of arranging his father's murder.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

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.