A man who disciplined his six-year-old daughter with a cricket bat when she would not stop coughing fails to get his jail term reduced.

A road rage incident may have been the precursor of a vicious murder in Sydney's inner suburbs last night.

Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop

Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop.

A Super 14 rugby player is before the courts over a carpark assault that left a man needing medical treatment.

A television programme about the life of convicted double-murderer Mark Lundy is set to go ahead.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

The teenager who was yesterday unmasked as Liberty Templeman's murderer has received death threats on the internet.

Police Minister talks tough after one cop goes into a coma and another had his lip bitten off.

An off-duty police officer seriously assaulted yesterday afternoon is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Name suppression has lifted for the boy convicted of the murder and indecent assault of Northland teenager Liberty Templeman.

An off-duty police officer is in hospital after being seriously assaulted in Tuakau, south of Auckland.

A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering and indecently assaulting schoolgirl Liberty 'Libby' Templeman in November 2008.

The judge presiding over the Liberty Templeman murder trial says there may have to be a retrial if a verdict cannot be reached.