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.

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.

The NZ man jailed in the US, who kept his girlfriend's body on ice for a year, says being home in Queenstown is "like Mars".

A teenager who fired a shot during the robbery of a Christchurch tavern yesterday is bearing the injuries of a struggle with patrons.

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

'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.

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