Police have released the name of a man wanted in connection with the execution-style killing of Keith Kahi on Sunday night.

The father of a young man who was stabbed to death says knife crime law changes are unlikely to be effective in limiting access to weapons.

The man found dead on a Manukau street last night died from gunshot wounds, say police.

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.

Police investigating the murder of 74-year-old Donald Alfred Stewart want to find the people who took the man's car from a ditch.

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.