Christie Marceau woke up to her mother screaming. Moments later, she was dead.

Closure is a long way off for the parents of an Auckland man who was bashed to death by Killer Clown Fiend gang members.

Amanda Kennedy stared down the killer who took the life of her friend and flatmate, as he was sentenced to five years in prison today.

The man who fatally punched Sky TV employee Billy Dawson has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The connection between animal abuse and the abuse of humans will be explored at this year's New Zealand Companion Animal Conference.

Four men will appear in court tomorrow charged over a stabbing in central Auckland late on Friday.

New Zealand rock musician Graham Brazier, the singer in band Hello Sailor, has been charged with assaulting his ex.

A man could lose the sight in one eye after being slashed from the temple to the jaw in a random attack during a night out in central Auckland.

About 100 people gathered at the Te Aroha Race Course today to farewell Rae Portman, whose body was found on a farm last week.

A mother is accused of immersing her 2-year-old son's hands in boiling water then failing to seek medical treatment for at least eight months.

A woman who murdered a 3-year-old boy has had an application to appeal her conviction thrown out by the Supreme Court.

It is too early to say how a man came to be hit by a car during a brawl in Rotorua, police say.

The family of a man accused of murder tried to snatch the body of his alleged victim from the funeral home where it lay.

Police have confirmed the body found at a rural property in Ardmore on Thursday afternoon is Rae Portman.

A verbal row that had festered on Facebook escalated to physical violence, with one of two female protagonists biting the breast of the other when they finally met, a court has been told.

The breakthrough in the Rae Portman mystery came when police officers visited a rural South Auckland address - but they didn't expect a body.