A young man was stabbed in Christchurch today during a fight involving more than eight people.

A man has been charged with murder two years after a woman's death, believed at the time to have been suicide.

A 17-year-old Pakuranga man will appear in court tomorrow to face charges in connection with the death of an 18-year-old.

A distraught teenager who tried in vain to save the life of his stabbed friend has told how police had to drag him away from the body. Dillon Meagher did a CPR course last month but hadn't learnt about treating multiple stab wounds.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering an elderly Wellington man in Hamilton last year.

As best he can remember, Richard Tudor can't recall any threats between his neighbours.

Marcelle Baardt says she was cut and scratched on her face, chest and arms after she was dragged from her car and attacked by a woman.