Fugitive British gunman Raoul Moat died after shooting himself following a six-hour stand-off with armed police.

David Bain has again called emergency services - but this time it was to assist a stranger.

A young Manawatu dairy farmer shot dead in his driveway is now being treated as a homicide, police say.

The family of Feilding dairy farmer Scott Guy, whose death police are treating as suspicious, have paid tribute to him.

Mel Gibson faces potential jail time if Los Angeles sheriffs find evidence supporting his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva's claims the Australian-raised Oscar winner assaulted her.

A man, 42, will appear in court this afternoon charged with the murder of Keith Kahi.

Police have found a man wanted in relation to an execution-style killing of a man in southeast Auckland.

Three teenagers have been arrested over the murder of 74-year-old Donald Alfred Stewart in Hamilton last month.

As armed police continue their manhunt for accused killer Raoul Moat, life goes on in rural Rothbury.

TVNZ has received a formal complaint about a documentary that reveals inconsistencies in the testimony of a witness in the David Bain retrial.

A shopkeeper was hit on the head with a hammer and had her wrists and ankles bound with lavalavas before a teenager stole money from her till.

Police are treating the death of a man in Feilding as suspicious after his body was found in the Manawatu town this morning.

A complaint to the Solicitor-General over a juror on the Bain murder retrial who was convicted of a serious theft is unlikely to affect the verdict.

'If I was to make an appeal I would say he would be better dead,' said the mother of armed fugitive Raoul Moat, wanted for two killings in the UK.

A juror on the Bain murder retrial who was convicted of theft is the subject of a complaint to the solicitor-general.

David Bain supporters' challenge for a live, public debate has been accepted by a documentary maker - but only if Mr Bain shows up.

A Canadian known to visit New Zealand is wanted for his involvement in the murder of 13 rival bikie gang members.