A Hastings man who sent a "malicious" letter to the mother-in-law of slain Feilding farmer Scott Guy has been convicted for wasting police time.

A man charged with setting his wife on fire at a rural Waikato roadside before fleeing for Fiji with his son will plead not guilty to her murder.

Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...

One of two men charged with killing Chinese student Jiayi Li has changed his plea and admitted to her murder. Also known as Kiko, her body was found in the boot of her car last June. She had been stabbed to death.

Nelson police are appealing for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station.

Nelson police are appealing to the public for information after a man on crutches was repeatedly stabbed outside a police station early this morning.

A Nelson father critically injured his 37-year-old son when he shot him at close range at a family home in Tapawera before turning the gun on himself, police say.

As a frontline cop lay on the ground taking blow after blow to his head, unable to fight back during a vicious attack by a burglary suspect, he didn't think he would survive.

A prison officer who had known 'evil and nasty' career criminal John Gillies for 10 years sent an email to the Department of Corrections begging for him not to be released. Gillies will be released next month...

A 59-year-old Hastings man died after being stabbed numerous times in the chest, an autopsy has revealed.

A car found burning in the western suburbs of Dunedin may hold clues to the "gruesome" murder of an unemployed man.

A group of 12- and 13-year-olds were left bloody, bruised and shaken after the unprovoked attack.