The NZ student accused of murdering his wife in the US has said he dreamed of being "reunited" with her.

The distraught mother of three children shot dead by their father in Melbourne says she wishes she had never taken her children to Australia.

A murder investigation has been launched into the death of a man after an attack at an Auckland house this afternoon.

A NZ doctoral student on trial in the US for murdering his wife told a psychiatrist he thought of the plan to kill her two days before the murder.

A businesswoman was run down and killed after she chased a thief who allegedly snatched her handbag, a court has heard.

The grieving family of three children killed by their father in Melbourne are fighting to have their bodies returned to NZ.

The Solicitor General is considering a request from Whangarei's crown prosecutor to appeal the sentence given to murdered schoolgirl Liberty Templeman's teen killer.

A 37-year-old man, who shot dead his three children in Melbourne, lived in NZ for five years earlier this decade before moving to Victoria.

Australian police are offering a reward for information on a New Zealand woman who disappeared in Sydney 30 years ago.

A top international criminal profiler has thrown new light on the Kirsty Bentley murder case.

An Iraqi immigrant smashed up and set fire to his Auckland home before allegedly attacking several family members.

More than a decade after Scott Watson was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, questions remain about the accuracy of his conviction.

A 24-year-old woman arrested after the fatal stabbing of a woman in Auckland last month now faces the more serious charge of murder.