A New Zealand woman and her British boyfriend who were shot dead on a beach in Libya in January were in the "wrong place at the wrong time", a British coroner says.

Two men involved in a fight outside a children's basketball game are blaming each other for the altercation - and police say witnesses will be key to establishing who the instigator was.

At what point paradise becomes lost depends on whom you speak to.

An Auckland grandmother who beat a 77-year-old man unconscious before setting him on fire will spend at least the next 15 years in prison.

A teenager who participated in a brutal, premeditated, armed hold-up has had a potentially lengthy prison term slashed because of his assistance to police.

A 13-year-old charged with the murder of a West Auckland shopkeeper faces a wait to find out whether he will get bail.

Police are continuing to call for more information relating to a string of suspected indecent assaults allegedly carried out by Northland lodge owner Michael Harris.

A young man suffered multiple facial fractures when he was assaulted after a 21st birthday party at a Christchurch cricket club early this morning.

Gold Coast murder accused Gable Tostee is alleged to have assaulted police officers in the months before Kiwi woman Warriena Wright plunged from his balcony.

Potential victims are still coming forward in the wake of the arrest of a Kaitaia lodge owner who has been charged with sexual assault.

A man who ran at a young dad outside a fundraising dance, kneeing him in the head and leading to a fall that killed him has been jailed for three years.

The owner of a Kaitaia backpackers charged with stupefying and indecently assaulting at least 16 young men was investigated last year but not charged.

Police have been inundated with phone calls from potential victims and people with information about a Northland lodge owner accused of sexually assaulting young men.

Oscar Pistorius has been described as “broken” by an investigative journalist with exclusive access to the athlete, who will hear the verdict of his murder trial later tonight.

The mayor of a town where a woman and her three young children have been found shot dead says the local community is in severe shock.

Accused balcony killer Gable Tostee called his lawyer seconds after New Zealand woman Warriena Wright plunged to her death from his highrise Gold Coast apartment, court documents allege.

An Australian man charged with the murder of a NZ woman has had his bail application adjourned, with a judge describing the charges against him as "weak".

More than 600 people gathered in the Ashburton Event Centre today to celebrate the life of Peg Noble, one of two women shot to death in Ashburton's Work and Income building.

Police investigating the double fatal Work and Income shooting in Ashburton say they have found a mountainbike and personal items which may belong to the suspect.

On Thursday the world will learn of the fate of Olympian Oscar Pistorius.

Private investigators claim a series of mystery phone calls were made to slain farmer Scott Guy on the eve and day of his killing which may hold the key to the four-year-old murder.

The tragic shooting of three women at the Winz office in Ashburton on Monday was shocking. Two women were killed and one is still in a serious condition in hospital.

New Zealand woman Warriena "Rrie" Wright was allegedly taunted and gasped for air in the seconds before she plunged 14 storeys to her death on the Gold Coast last month.

The morning began like all others for three women in the Winz office.

Public servants will observe two minutes of silence at 9.51am on Monday to remember those who lost their lives a week earlier in the Ashburton Work and Income shootings.