It's fair to say that I have come across Italian restaurants more devoid of atmosphere, but they were all in railway stations.

A woman was heard yelling, "I wasn't dating you anyway", at a party before police arrived at the function to find a woman had been murdered.

A homicide investigation is underway after the stabbing death of a woman at a party in Manurewa overnight.

Police use of social networks to hunt criminals is proving effective, with 'one or two' crooks caught each month.

Len Brown broke nearly every rule in the book when he put $810 on his council credit card for a dinner at a Manurewa restaurant last September.

Slain liquor store owner Navtej Singh waited for 37 minutes for medical treatment because the officer in charge of the scene was never directly told the robbers had fled, an IPCA inquiry finds.

The Deputy Police Commissioner has dismissed the idea that police had failed in their "duty of care" toward Navtej Singh.

Anitilea Chan-Kee will spend a minimum of 17 years in jail for the murder of Auckland liquor store owner Navtej Singh.

The widow of slain liquor store owner Navtej Singh believes police delays hindered his chances of survival, and is demanding answers.

The wife of a slain south Auckland liquor store owner is stunned five men charged with murder have been found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter.

Anitilea Chan Kee (above right) is convicted of murdering liquor store owner Navtej Singh but friends are shocked by not guilty verdicts against five others.

The jury has retired to decide whether seven people are guilty of various charges in connection with the 2008 shooting of Navtej Singh.

There has been an attempted abduction of two young girls from Hill Park school in Manurewa, in south Auckland, this morning.

The man who shot liquor store owner Navtej Singh will live with the consequences for the rest of his life, his lawyer told jurors today.