A Whanganui High Court jury has found Rikki Ngatai-Check, who kicked two-year-old Karl Perigo-Check to death, guilty of murder.

The hunter who fatally shot Rosemary Ives made his first public statement with tears in his eyes.

Simon Power has turned down calls for an independent inquiry into a 40-year-old murder mystery.

A Kiwi dad is in mourning after his son was allegedly drowned by the toddler's mother off the coast of Western Australia.

A son has given evidence against his own father, accused of the murder of a mother of four.

Bruce Emery will walk free next month after less than two years in jail for fatally stabbing a teen.

The man who admitted murdering Raymond Piper has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years.

Eighteen months after stopping a gunman from finishing off two wounded policemen, reluctant hero Len Holmwood has had enough. He wants a job.

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a Tauranga mother and her 2-year-old daughter in June this year.

A woman described having a 'feeling in my guts' on the morning she found her sister brutally murdered.