A 35-year-old Napier woman has been remanded in custody on assault charges after an alleged domestic assault in Napier left a 45-year-old man dead from stab wounds.

A woman has been jailed for five years and three months for the Valentine's Day killing of her partner by stabbing him in the neck with a knife.

An anti-violence campaigner has called on Northland men to "man up" and lead the way against domestic violence by speaking up if they see others abusing loved ones.

The mother of Sophie Elliott, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, is backing a Northland family's stance against domestic violence following their tragic loss.

While a Northland family were grieving the death of Patricia Ann McGrath they were also spreading the anti-violence message at her tangi.

Christmas can be one of the most dreaded times for women and children affected by domestic violence.

A jury has taken just three hours to find a woman guilty of the manslaughter of her partner on Valentine's Day, but cleared her of murder.

More than 3500 domestic-violence reports were made to Northland police in the year to June - nearly 10 a day - but family violence experts say the problem is much bigger.

Accused murderer Patricia Erica Paton had a "huge egg" on her forehead and a split lip when she hitchhiked to Opotiki on the night her partner died from a stab wound.

King Tuheitia's private secretary, Rangi Wallace, has had his firearms licence revoked after a domestic incident at the home he shared with his fiancee.

A woman who claims she stabbed her partner to death in self defence cried "I killed my man" after she inflicted the fatal wound, a witness has told the High Court.

Two Waikato women stepped in and stopped a man who was kicking his partner in the head on a Ngaruawahia street on Sunday night.

Here's a quick quiz. You are a child. Who is most likely to kill you. Your mum? Your dad? Stepdad? Rodney Hide says police have the answer.

Men have colonised women's minds just as the English colonised the Maori, says Auckland University psychologist Peter Adams.

More than a dozen Upper Hutt schools will this afternoon take part in a "rolling haka" stretching for several kilometres along Upper Hutt streets.

The police armed offenders squad used flash-bang grenades to apprehend a man involved in a domestic incident in west Auckland last night.

Organisers of the annual White Ribbon Day believe violence toward women has been reduced since the campaign started six years ago.

Police are investigating one of the country's top school principals over a physical confrontation with his former wife.

Sexual assaults by players and supporters in last year's Rugby World Cup helped set a new record for assaults on women reported to an Auckland sexual abuse service.

Children are far more likely to be killed by their mothers than any other category of offender, a new police review of family violence case shows.