A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a man whose body was found in a Rotorua park this week.
A Florida woman accused of arranging the murder of her millionaire husband told police she knew nothing of his killing until she tripped over his body as she entered their New York hotel room.
Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot has been sentenced to 28 years in prison by a Peruvian court for killing a woman in Lima in 2010, exactly five years since 18-year-old Alabama native Natalee Holloway disappeared after spending time with him.
A 25-year-old appeared in court this morning charged with the murder of Kenneth John Moore, 65, in Christchurch on Friday - the quake-hit city's second murder case already this year.
A 53-year-old truck driver appeared in court this morning charged with the murder and sexual violation of Christchurch barmaid Tracey Lee Morris.
A 32-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of 1-year-old baby Terepo Taura-Griffiths.
Bay of Plenty police have arrested and charged a 70-year-old Rotorua man with murder over a Turangi homicide 32 years ago.
A 27-year-old man appeared in court this morning charged with the murder of missing Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles.
Police are set to reveal a new development in a nearly three-year-old investigation into the murder of prostitute Mellory Manning this afternoon.
The New Zealand family of a former Napier City councillor are in shock after finding out he has been charged for the murder of his Canadian wife.
A woman has today been charged with murder, days after a man's body parts were found in a foul-smelling rubbish bin she was spotted pushing down the street.
Theresa Nohe-Sipili says she can never forgive her nephew and his friend for the drunken beating of her husband of 16 years, Etuina Sipili.
Three people are dead following an apparent murder-suicide, in the latest of a string of tragedies to hit the Manawatu town of Feilding.
The West Coast sawmill worker accused of the double murder of his Hokitika neighbour, pensioner Frank Joseph Schist and his 23-year-old handicapped grandson Andrew William Hutchison in early April, was today ruled fit to plead to the charges.
A 24-year-old woman charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of another woman in the Auckland suburb of Remuera was remanded in custody when she appeared in court today.
The man accused of murder following a double shooting in the West Coast town of Hokitika has been further remanded for a psychiatric assessment.
At 86 and confined to a mobility scooter, Frank Schist had openly stated he felt ready to die.
A 16-year-old girl has admitted murdering a woman who died following an arson attack on a Pukekohe house last year.
A Wellington man has been remanded in custody after an appearance in court for the historic murder of a Lower Hutt man.