Court reporter Andrew Koubaridis looks at the case of Nai Yin Xue in the latest in his week-long series on the big trials of last year

An inquiry has been launched after a mental health worker was stabbed, kicked and had boiling water thrown over her by a patient.

Australia's fragile relations with India have taken another serious blow.

A number of high-profile trials captured public attention during 2009. First up, court reporter Andrew Koubaridis revisits the Bain retrial.

Christchurch's so-called 'house of horrors' has been demolished following an arson attack this morning.

Police tried in vain to save the life of a 30-year-old woman at Ruakaka, south of Whangarei, after she was stabbed last night.

A man was reportedly attacked with a running chainsaw while sitting on a lawn of a Dunedin house yesterday afternoon.

A man arrested in connection with the shooting of an Auckland police officer has been given bail.

Injured police officer Jeremy Snow is itching to get out of his hospital bed and back to his police work.

Constable Jeremy Snow didn't want to go to work the night that he was shot, his stepmother says.