"It was a weak and cowardly strategy and it failed," the judge said.

A jury finds two 20-year-olds guilty of killing Daryl Graydon while he was walking home from a party in Howick, southeast Auckland, in December 2007.

A man has been jailed for at least 17 years for the "callous and cruel" murder of his 11-week-old daughter.

A woman nearly lost an arm when she was attacked by her elderly father-in-law with a sugar cane knife.

Police are investigating after a man was found dead and a woman seriously injured at a house in south Auckland today.

A man has been charged with manslaughter after allegedly accidentally shooting his partner as he posed for a photo with a gun.

The niece of a woman beaten to death and stuffed in a wardrobe described her aunt's murder as "savage and disgusting" at her killer's sentencing today.

A prison inmate has described seeing a fellow inmate being dragged from a cell on the day of his death.

A NZ Olympian accused of sex and violence offences against his wife will have his name suppressed at least until the New Year.