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.

The key figure in one of the most notorious murders in New Zealand colonial history has been pardoned.

A man accused of assaulting an 8-month-old baby who has since died has been charged with the infant's murder.

A man accused of assaulting an 8-month-old baby who has since died will reappear in court later this week.

A baby boy in Hamilton who was airlifted to Starship Children's hospital with critical injuries on Sunday has died.

A man accused of assaulting an 8-month-old baby has been remanded in custody to reappear tomorrow.

A woman ran to her neighbour's house to find a critically ill baby going purple and his eyes rolling in his head yesterday.

Angry parents say justice system is protecting boys whose attack after rugby ended their 15-year-old’s life

The grandmother of a 13-year-old charged with murdering Arun Kumar says her thoughts are with the dairy owner's family.

An Auckland teenager has admitted his role in attacking schoolboy Stephen Dudley and will be sentenced in August.

Police will not be drawn on how Wellsford toddler Stevve Lawson received fatal head injuries, or whose custody she was in when she was hurt.

Prime Minister John Key is confident Education Minister Hekia Parata did not hit a staff member, as alleged by Labour MP Trevor Mallard yesterday.

A West Auckland man accused of murdering his wife and daughter will be assessed by a psychiatrist to determine his fitness to stand trial.

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.

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.

A man has accused of the murder of Blessie Gotingco has appeared in court this morning, and been granted name and image suppression by a judge.

The man accused of killing Auckland woman Blessie Gotingco has appeared in court this morning.

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.