Only one man has been charged out of the hundreds responsible for last weekend's booze-fuelled mayhem at Eden Park.

A taxi driver was in hospital with a broken leg last night after being dragged from his cab and attacked.

A man accused of murdering his elderly neighbour was suffering from a major depressive episode with psychotic features at the time of the killing, a court is told.

The Law Society has renewed its call to reinstate the partial defence of provocation following its successful use in the Bourke manslaughter case.

A man was "delusional" at the time he strangled his 84-year-old neighbour, a court was told today.

Police investigating the shooting of a school caretaker in Palmerston North yesterday say it may be linked to similar incidents in recent months.

A man has been arrested for a series of sexual assaults on other men.

A man accused of murdering his girlfriend showed no emotion when he opened the door to the apartment where her decomposing body lay and admitted killing her, a court hears.

A caretaker has been taken to hospital after being shot with a BB gun in a suspected drive-by attack outside his Palmerston North school.

Police have refused to say if a murder-suicide or a triple killing is behind the deaths of three people in a small town.

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A man allegedly killed his girlfriend and left her body to decompose in an Auckland apartment for up to 3-1/2 weeks, the High Court hears.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.