A Christchurch man and woman caught on CCTV walking away from the scene of a shooting have turned themselves in. Photo / NZPA

An Auckland woman died after being stabbed in the heart twice before having her body stuffed inside a suitcase, a court heard today.

A bitter dispute has developed over the will and $2m fortune of slain undercover police officer Don Wilkinson.

Police believe friends may be helping a man they want to question after a body was found in a pool of blood.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a man in his early twenties was found dead at a Mt Eden boarding lodge in the early hours of this morning.

A Rotorua man who admitted assaulting his son has walked free after a judge said he had already punished himself enough.

A witness has described how an enraged driver put his foot down and "just went for it" in a road-rage incident that left a man with two smashed legs.

The killers of Melbourne businessman Herman Rockefeller have been sentenced to nine years and seven years in prison.

Coroner David Crerar has agreed with police that Napier gunman Jan Molenaar's response to a police search was totally disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident.

The discovery of a skull in a NSW forest has revived interest in Ivan Milat and the 'backpacker murders'.

Police are believed to have tracked the movements in Waikato of two men who knew Carmen Thomas - at the time that her car was abandoned in Hamilton.

A man was bashed in the head with a hammer during a "vicious attack" and robbery at a Wellington dairy last night.