A parking warden was admitted to hospital after being attacked on duty in Auckland - and the assault was so bad, it kept him in hospital for five nights.

Residents of Chicago were agonising again yesterday on what ails their city after another weekend of gun violence in which the victims included an 11-year-old girl shot dead.

Grieving relatives of one of the men killed in the Auckland pawn shop double homicide have paid tribute to him.

One of the men killed in a pawn shop in south Auckland on Saturday had recently returned from helping flood victims in Northland, a witness says.

A nurse who punched a patient failed to provide care and skill, a Health Commissioner has found.

An off-duty bouncer is accused of punching a female bar patron repeatedly in the face as she sat in a taxi outside the bar where he worked.

The last night of Allison Baden-Clay's life started like any other.

The Kiwi family of a Tongan man killed in Hawaii say they have no idea what happened to their relative, beyond what they've read in the news.

An 11-year-old stabbed in the head with a pair of classroom scissors has woken from a coma - and his survival means the boy believed responsible will not be charged.

A Hamilton man accused of murdering his infant son can now be named.

The grandmother of an 8-year-old NZ-born girl beaten to death with a vacuum cleaner pipe in 2011 says Australian child care authorities failed in their duty.

Italian prosecutors pushing for Amanda Knox’s extradition from the US claim they have evidence of her extensive links to cocaine dealers in Perugia, it has been reported.

Murray McCully says it was "good and proper process" for him to leave the case of a Malaysian diplomat accused of sex crimes to authorities for seven weeks.

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has cast doubt on her innocence in the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher.

Questions have been raised as to how a woman who threatened to harm her neighbour before later killing her was not formally admitted to a mental health facility earlier.

Police investigating the homicide of Wanganui man Brett Hall have arrested and charged a man with his murder.

The family of an 11-year-old boy stabbed with a pair of classroom scissors have forgiven the child police believe was responsible for inflicting the life-threatening injury, a relative says.

Surrounded by five security guards and with his hands cuffed together, prisoner Damian Karl Wereta made no attempt today to escape the courtroom dock.

The mother of an eight month old Hamilton boy who died following head injuries received at home has released a statement.

The child alleged to have stabbed his classmate in the head with scissors still hasn't been formally interviewed by police.

A grieving father is stunned at the sentences handed to three men responsible for his son's death, while the victim's mother says she wishes the offenders were dead instead.

The child stabbed in the head in a classroom altercation in Mangere hasn't woken from his coma since the incident.

A hospital chaplain was assaulted with a box cutter and a stick after telling a man attempting to rob his collection boxes, "You can't take God's money".

A new report looking at family violence is recommending that a partial defence be introduced for repeat victims who lash out at their abusers.

A 12-year-old boy is facing a new charge of manslaughter over the killing of a west Auckland dairy owner, and his case will now move to the High Court.

The murder of dairy owner Arun Kumar has shocked the central Henderson community. But locals say youth crime in the area has been escalating for months.

Aucklander Tina Helg had no idea that her Greenlane home was the scene of one of New Zealand's most sensational murders.