Police say they are focusing on the welfare of motherless four-year-old Akash Sharma, while they decide whether to extradite his father back to NZ.

A teenage boy was released on bail today after his first court appearance over the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman in Northland.

New Zealand police detectives have arrived in Fiji to question the husband of a woman burnt alive near Huntly.

The fatal shooting of a woman in Northland last night is a tragic reminder of how dangerous guns can be, say police.

Convicted murderer Stephen Hudson has filed private prosecutions against witnesses who gave evidence against him.

The husband of an Auckland woman burnt to death is the son of a Hindu high priest and was nearly deported from NZ for overstaying.

The family of a young mother burnt to death in the Waikato have been stunned by her death. Police today confirmed they had tracked down her husband Diwesh Sharma in Fiji, after help from the local Fijian community.

Name suppression for a 21-year-old Hastings man charged with killing a five-month-old baby was lifted in court today.

Honour killings have taken place in New Zealand, a spokesperson for an ethnic women's group says.

A young mother left burning to death on a rural road was in a violent marriage to a man now the focus of an international manhunt.

Police have launched an international search to find the husband of a woman burned to death by the side of a Waikato road last week, after he flew to Fiji with their four-year-old son the day after her body was found.

The husband of a woman found burned to death next to a Huntly road last week fled overseas with the couple's four-year-old son the day after her body was found, say police.

Police have identified the woman found burned to death next to a Huntly road and say her husband - who left NZ with their son on Friday - is a person of 'considerable interest' to their investigation.

A 9-year-old boy helped rescue Nortessa Montgomerie yesterday, 36 hours after she was abducted on Great Barrier Island.

One of the country's most notorious killers has told one of his victims what she has waited nearly 15 years to hear.

A woman whose body was found burning by a remote Waikato road was alive when she was set on fire.

As Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison, his family fear his property career could already be ruined.

A woman and man missing on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf have been found near Claris on the east coast of the island, police say.

The desert town near the Mexican border is a sanctuary for those who flee the big cities - bikers, students and artists. Ed Vulliamy, who is a resident, believes Tucson will overcome a lone gunman's rampage.

The man charged with two murders in a $3 million mansion is also facing a separate Serious Fraud Office case.

Model Priscila Ferreira is at the centre of a love triangle in which a Kiwi man is being held by Dubai police.

Great Barrier residents warned to stay inside as police hunt a man wanted for abducting his ex-girlfriend and attacking her new partner with a crowbar.