A man charged with setting his wife on fire at a rural Waikato roadside before fleeing for Fiji with his son will plead not guilty to her murder.

Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...

One of two men charged with killing Chinese student Jiayi Li has changed his plea and admitted to her murder. Also known as Kiko, her body was found in the boot of her car last June. She had been stabbed to death.

Two people have been arrested for what Christchurch police say appears to be a racially motivated attack on a foreign student.

Nelson police are appealing for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station.

Nelson police are appealing to the public for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station early this morning.

Charges have been laid against a trio who were hunting with a man when he shot a Wellington teacher at a Turangi campsite.

A prison officer who had known 'evil and nasty' career criminal John Gillies for 10 years sent an email to the Department of Corrections begging for him not to be released. Gillies will be released next month...

A 59-year-old Hastings man died after being stabbed numerous times in the chest, an autopsy has revealed.

A car found burning in the western suburbs of Dunedin may hold clues to the "gruesome" murder of an unemployed man.

A group of 12- and 13-year-olds were left bloody, bruised and shaken after the unprovoked attack.