The sisters of one of the men found at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide says she can't understand what went wrong.

Michael Douglas ex-wife was blasted in court yesterday on Tuesday.

Jennifer Hudson's brother-in-law William Balfour has been granted a continuance in his trial for murder and home invasion charges, following the killing of the singer's mother, brother and nephew.

Cameron Slater denied he had identified people with name suppression on his blog when he appeared in court today.

The Serious Fraud Office has laid more than 100 charges against four former directors of failed lender Five Star Finance, carrying a maximum penalty of seven years apiece.

A note was found at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide in Feilding, but police won't reveal its details.

Police have named the man who died in an Auckland pharmacy after a struggle early yesterday morning.

The Herald understands a pharmacist struggled with an intruder and was holding the man down before he went into cardiac arrest.

The three bodies found in a Feilding farmhouse were removed last night as detectives try to piece together how the apparent murder-suicide played out.

Days away from release, convicted double murderer John Barlow has spoken out of his fight to clear his name.

A $465,000 house has been seized from a commercial cannabis grower as punishment instead of an 18-month prison sentence.

John Barlow was jailed in 1995 for the execution-style killings of Wellington father and son businessmen Eugene and Gene Thomas.

Calls to change procedures after a notorious killer was able to write a letter to a juror have been called into doubt by the Law Society.