A nurse has been stabbed while visiting a mental health patient in South Auckland.

Police are following “positive leads” in locating a person who shot a man dead in Hamilton today.

A man has been arrested after a violent incident in Kingsland tonight.

A Hamilton man has admitted the murder of his 8-month-old son after fighting the charge since his arrest last year.

Survivors of the Copenhagen synagogue attack talk about how the night unfolded.

Perth police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 40-year-old Auckland man in a laneway yesterday.

A British man has been arrested for allegedly killing a German man he caught filming his young daughter at a Spanish holiday resort favoured by the rich and famous.

A third person has been arrested and charged in relation to the the death of a man in Taita, Lower Hutt last week.

"You can't compensate for the loss of a child, but there were so many expenses the Government doesn't seem to understand." Sophie Elliot's father speaks out.

A homeless man will spend at least 12 years in jail for murdering his mate in a central Auckland park after they fought over a free pizza.

"All I saw was blood," said a horrified neighbour who watched as a man was hit with a golf club and then repeatedly kicked while he lay on the ground yesterday.

Police say a young female officer was repeatedly punched and eye gouged in the back of a patrol car while being driven to the station with an alleged drink-driver.

A woman has been seriously injured after being stabbed in Ponsonby, Auckland, tonight.

Gable Tostee, the man accused of killing a NZ woman by throwing her off a Gold Coast balcony, has reportedly changed his name by deed poll.

A man charged with a double stabbing at a South Auckland birthday party and the woman who allegedly tried to help him avoid arrest have denied the offending.

Murder accused Gable Tostee has been sentenced to 10 months in jail after admitting to a drunken, high-speed cross-border police pursuit in his father’s car.

The victims of a violent axe attack that took place in Wellington last year have had their name suppression lifted, after a man appeared in court today.

Bali police have shot and arrested the man who allegedy organised the murder of New Zealand-raised businessman Robert Ellis.

A woman who was hit over the head with a bottle and severely beaten during a "terrifying" home invasion says the ordeal has left her scared of going out at night alone.

A 23-year-old man was left with an iron bar lodged in his head after being viciously attacked in the Bay of Plenty overnight.

A father whose baby died in suspicious circumstances more than four months ago is furious detectives have still not told him how his son died.

An examination of the scene of a homicide at a Woodville property has been completed.

Aaliyah Ashlyn Chand died at Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday with her parents by her bedside.

Christchurch's tight-knit Fijian-Indian community is looking to rally around the parents of a 1-year-old baby girl who died after suffering serious head injuries.

Two American tourists who were viciously assaulted less than 48 hours into their holiday say it won't ruin their time here.

A man who was found dead at a house in Woodville on Sunday was shot, police confirmed today as they released his name.

Less than 48 hours into their holiday, two US tourists were the victims of a "vicious and unprovoked" attack in Northland - and one will need reconstructive surgery.

Police have confirmed that a man attacked at an Auckland motel died of head injuries.