A man aged in his twenties died after being stabbed in the chest in Manukau City last night.

A former detective on the Crewe double murder inquiry is backing calls for the unsolved case to be reopened.

Drug dealer went to jail after keeping his dead girlfriend on ice for nearly a year - now Stephen Royds is back in New Zealand.

The man who snatched a handbag from a businesswoman then ran her down in a stolen vehicle has been jailed for at least 12 years.

Armed police remain on alert after a gang confrontation in Wairoa last night ended with a man being shot in the face.

The solicitor-general is to appeal the sentence imposed on Isaiah Tai for killing Bay of Plenty regional councillor Hawea Vercoe.

There is no good reason to revisit the unsolved 1970 Crewe murder case, says the man who helped Arthur Allan Thomas win a pardon.

The brother of slain Wellington man Donald Stewart says his family is "shattered and in shock" over the way he died.

Police hope to speak to Jacqueline Blackbourn's ex-partner, who is now out of an induced coma, in the next day or two.

Police have identified the body of a man found dead in his slippers in Hamilton on Sunday and are now trying to trace the movements of his car.

A woman who died in a mystery house fire on Auckland's North Shore was an English immigrant who had lived in NZ for 20 years.