A 41-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of a 59-year-old woman who was killed while trying to protect her daughter early yesterday morning.

A man shot during an armed confrontation on an Auckland motorway early in 2009 says he's been made to feel like a witness rather than a victim.

A 59-year-old woman was killed yesterday while trying to protect her daughter from a flash of violence that also left two others injured.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman was killed in Tauranga this morning.

Police are yet to make any arrests after Matthew Hall, 35, was found stabbed to death in his bed at his Johnsonville home but they hope CCTV images of Mr Hall on the night he was killed might lead to information from the public.

Police are looking for witnesses after a 35-year-old man was stabbed in the neck in Hastings last night.

Five men have been jailed for a brutal attack on the owner of an Auckland kebab store - organised by an employee who wanted to take over his business.

Police are looking for a large knife with a serrated edge, believed to have been used in the brutal fatal attack on Wellington man Matthew John Hall.

The officer heading the investigation into the slaying of a Wellington man says his injuries were some of the most "vicious" he had seen in his 23 years on the force.

A jury in the Palmerston North High Court has today found a man not guilty of murdering a three-year-old girl but guilty of her manslaughter. Kash McKinnon died of head injuries in Palmerston North Hospital in August 2009.

Dev Sangha said he saw his "daughter's blood before his eyes" before he charged at her killer in the High Court at Rotorua today.

A man is being questioned over the stabbing of three people, including a 13-year-old boy, in Hamilton last night.

A massive police hunt has been launched for the killer of a man who was the victim of a 'ferocious' stabbing attack at his Wellington home. Police found the body of Matthew Hall, 35, at his Johnsonville flat on Tuesday evening.

A police constable shot four times while investigating a suspected car break-in in south Auckland in December 2009 says he has no doubt about the identity of the gunman.

A teenager has undergone surgery after being shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting at Taupo.

One of two teenagers charged with attempted murder after a policeman was attacked with a machete at Taihape on December 11 last year has pleaded guilty.

A woman who paid an ex-gang member to beat up her daughter's partner and her brother who organised the assault were jailed today.

Police have named a woman killed in her east Auckland home on Sunday evening.

Busy radio traffic on a police network which stopped an officer calling for help for his badly wounded colleague was "the worst case scenario", says the police union.

Police have named a man found dead in his Johnsonville home with multiple wounds to his body on Tuesday evening.

A former beautician turned self-appointed border vigilante has been found guilty of murder.

A police officer shot by a man high on methamphetamine in south Auckland in December 2009 thought the shooter was going to "execute me and finish me off", the constable told a jury today.