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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Man accused of murdering two pawn shop staff will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

Blood was traipsed throughout the apartment of the man accused of killing Blessie Gotingco, a scientist has told the court.

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.