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.

Father of two Richard Neville is suing police for gross negligence and mental trauma after he was caught up in a bungled shootout on Auckland's northwestern motorway.

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.

Police hunting the killer of a man who was the victim of a 'ferocious' stabbing attack at his Wellington home are appealing for new leads.

The man who admitted murdering a Tauranga mother and her daughter and stashing the 2-year-old girl's body in washing machine has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

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 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.

A woman who was found guilty of manslaughter after leaving her baby son unattended in a bath has had her sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 29-year-old migrant left her 13-month-old baby boy in the bath for about 15 minutes...

The officer whose partner was shot during a routine patrol in South Auckland heard screams shortly after a volley of shots rang out.

Relatives in India are still be told of the brutal slaying of a woman in east Auckland last night.