Two men chatted pleasantly with the two fishermen next to them on a wharf north of Auckland, unaware they were about to become their victims.

The man accused of killing an Upper Hutt mother and injuring three others in an axe attack late last year has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Susan Burdett's brother wants police to reopen the inquiry into her murder in 1992.

Justice France will be remembered at the trial as the most brilliant legal mind on display.

A priest has been slammed for telling primary school children that a woman who was raped and murdered would still be alive if she had been more “faith filled”.

The fate of two men accused of burning a 21-year-old supermarket worker to death for $30,000 will be in the hands of a jury this afternoon.

A young man’s “conscience kicked in” when he and his co-defendant went to a south Auckland road to burn a body, his lawyer said.

The lawyer of a man accused of burning his friend to death says his client thought the victim was dead when the fire was lit.

The lawyer for the man accused of burning his friend to death has suggested the victim may have been unconscious when the fire started - appearing to be dead.

Days after allegedly burning their friend to death, one man told his co-accused keeping their stories straight was 'the only way we'll be saved', a court has heard.

A mother stabbed to death as she walked home after a double shift was speaking to her husband by phone when she was attacked.

One of two men accused of murdering Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is a decorated former soldier who once received a bravery award issued by the Kremlin.

The man accused of burning his friend to death sent him a text message a week after, saying whoever committed the murder "deserves to be in jail for good".

Two Auckland men accused of burning a 21-year-old man to death over his life savings used nearly $25,000 within 48 hours of the alleged murder, a court has heard.

Coral-Ellen Burrows should be planning a party. Instead, her family will gather at her graveside. Her life was cut short in a crime that brought New Zealand to a standstill.

EXCLUSIVE: A cop was assaulted by an aggressive remand prisoner being housed at a police station because of a spike in inmate numbers.

An Auckland man accused of burning his friend to death over his life savings allegedly spent some of the cash on souping up his car just hours after the murder.

Only days after allegedly burning his friend to death for his life savings, an Auckland man used the money to pay off his court fines.

A police officer has suffered injuries to his entire body after a man assaulted the officer then set his dog on him outside a Winz office.

Moscow police were yesterday hunting for the killers of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition politician who was gunned down in the shadow of the Kremlin's towers yesterday.

The mother of slain model Reeva Steenkamp, shot dead by Oscar Pistorius on Valentine's Day 2013, is due to share her daughter's story with Kiwis.

A man will appear in court today charged with the murder of a Whangamata man who was found dead earlier this month.

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.