The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women.

A police officer has told a High Court that he spoke to the boy accused of her murder just minutes before he found her body.

Michael Jackson's doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer's death.

Chris Kahui is disappointed an inquest into the deaths of his three-month-old twins has been postponed indefinitely, his lawyer says.

A student held hostage by a knife-wielding hitch-hiker thought he was going to be "filleted" at a remote farmhouse.

The wife of slain Auckland taxi driver Hiren Mohini sobbed yesterday as she described the moment she told her two young daughters their father was not coming home.

Grieving relatives of slain taxi driver Hiren Mohini today told funeral mourners his death was an "unimaginable and unfathomable event" and described his killer as "barbaric".

Taxis with black ribbons tied to their aerials drive through west Auckland streets in a funeral cortege for slain driver Hiren Mohini.

A man accused of robbing and fatally shooting a South Auckland store owner fired a practice shot at home, then called for volunteers to join him in the raid, a court has heard.

Liquor store owner Navtej Singh was shot in a calm and deliberate way after six men ran out of booze and decided to rob the shop, the High Court hears.

The identity of the man accused of trying to murder a policeman, hit four times in a hail of gunfire, remains suppressed.