A mother who cut her baby's throat was reunited just months later with the child inside the psychiatric facility where she was being treated.

Samoan rugby legend Brian Lima has been found guilty of charges relating to a public attack on his ex-wife.

Residents in a quiet, family neighbourhood were left shocked and fearful after tragedy struck in their midst last weekend.

Thousands have turned out for a candle-lit march tonight to remember murdered Auckland mother Blessie Gotingco.

The father of a woman murdered 14 years ago in similar circumstances to Blessie Gotingco says the pain of losing his daughter will never go away.

The son of a 77-year-old woman tied up and assaulted in a brutal daylight home invasion in January knows the man charged with his mother's attack.

A neighbour of the man charged with the murder of Blessie Gotingco says the accused lived alone and only moved to the area a few months ago.

The public gallery in a West Auckland court had to be cleared today as a father and son pleaded not guilty to charges related to a fatal shooting in Ranui.

The three children of slain mother Blessie Gotingco were last night reunited with their father at their family home where a steady flow of relatives, friends and neighbours came to pay their respects.

The mother of trainee teacher would often worry her son would get into trouble on a night out, and today his killer was jailed for two years and four months.

We may never know why teenage gang member Mohammed Hussain was in rival territory after dark on 1 April last year - even with armed back-up waiting close by in the car.

A double shooting which left one man dead and one critically injured may have been the result of a neighbourhood feud, police say.

Residents in the West Auckland suburb of Ranui are dealing with three deaths in less than a week, after another violent incident.

Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan punched a man in a supermarket.

A female jogger was attacked in Hamilton on Wednesday night and police are appealing for help to find the offenders.

The father of an Auckland schoolgirl strangled to death by her boyfriend is fronting an anti-violence group in a bid to save others.

Forty-two seconds was all it took to destroy an Auckland family. While the men responsible face years in prison, their victims will pay for the rest of their lives.

A British professional cyclist assaulted while competing in New Zealand can only now finally open his jaw properly, almost six months after being attacked.

A Christchurch sex worker has been assaulted following a dispute over payment, police say.

Police say a man repeatedly punched an officer in the face in front of his grandchildren during a stolen firearms raid this week.

A friend who was with Nicholas Heyward as he was gunned down in Argentina has detailed how she tried to help him, as two men are arrested over the attack.

After United States death row inmate Clayton Lockett on Wednesday took more than 40 minutes to die after an experimental lethal injection, here's a look at other execution cases which have attracted attention.

Mendoza police are reported to have detained one person suspected of involvement in the murder of a New Zealand tourist in Argentina.