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 14-year-old boy has admitted he lied to police about his involvement because he was scared.

A boy who was with two teens before they allegedly killed a west Auckland dairy owner says the pair were hoping to get rich.

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.

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.

Grieving relatives of two men stabbed to death say the guilty verdicts are welcome.

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.

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.

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.