Police have named the Kaikohe woman who died after what police allege was a domestic violence attack.

A homicide inquiry has been launched after a Kaikohe woman died following what police allege was a domestic violence attack.

The parents of a police officer shot three times have moved in with him and his flatmates to aid his recovery.

The identity of the man accused of shooting a police officer in Papatoetoe will remain a secret until at least tomorrow.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

Double killer Rufus Junior Marsh, a career criminal who spent just 18 months out of jail since he was 14, has died in prison.

Fijian police say it is too early to say if former All Black Robin Brooke will be charged for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl.

The partner of a man who died aboard a luxury boat during a party on Auckland's Viaduct says his death was a "terrible, horrible accident".

The father of murdered schoolgirl Karlo Cardno has been sentenced to nine years in prison for indecently assaulting a minor.

Name suppression was today lifted for a woman accused of murdering a man found dead in Orewa at the weekend.

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

In part five of his series on 2009's big trials, Andrew Koubaridis revisits the night Tony Worrell drove into Katie Powles.

A spurned woman poisoned her former lover and his new fiancee by lacing their curry with an ancient poison, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

A woman who suffered serious fractures and cuts to her face in a home invasion early today was not the victim of a random attack, police say.