Police chasing a violent offender in Auckland were helped out by a bystander who tackled the man, bringing him down and allowing police to handcuff him.

Mayor Len Brown has named big-brand international retailers Apple and Tiffany & Co as potential candidates to open their first New Zealand stores in Auckland.

An 18-year-old man showed up at an Auckland emergency room with a gunshot wound last night.

Police have released a sketch of a man being sought after a woman was brutally attacked in her central Auckland home earlier this month.

A slew of alleged drink drivers appeared in court today, including two business high-flyers.

A prominent commercial real estate financier says land-bankers are ruining Auckland's central business district by leaving many sites vacant for decades.

Developers of a controversial multi-million waterfront village have been told "build around me" by a pensioner who owns the lease to land in the middle of the site.

SkyCity Entertainment Group, the casino and hotel operator, is in talks with the government on how to fund the increased cost of as much as $130 million to build an international convention centre in downtown Auckland.

A wealthy businessman who chained up a woman in his "dungeon" and forced her to perform sex acts has been jailed for 15 years.

Auckland City's public spaces will be transformed into 'fanzones' to allow the public to fully engage with a bumper summer of international events.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

A New Zealand judge has made reference to the Sydney siege as “the elephant in the room” while sentencing a man who shouted jihadist slogans at a Muslim leader.

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.

A senior fire fighter was "grasping at straws" as he asked a power company engineer to cut electricity to an Auckland suburb as they tried to reach a dying man.

Sarah Ell and her son are awed, charmed and enlightened by a 'movie' at the Observatory.

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Tristram Clayton makes like a megastar at a top Auckland address.

A South Auckland man accused over a fatal stabbing last month, where a man was dropped off at a medical centre, can now be named.

A serious crash brought Auckland’s motorway network to its knees with motorists stuck in grid-locked traffic for up to four hours.

A fire broke out at the TVNZ headquarters in central Auckland this morning.

The scene of a serious crash on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge has been cleared and the northbound lanes reopened.

A fire has broken out at TVNZ Headquarters on Victoria St, Auckland.

Artistic problems and political bickering are plaguing the $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf.

An organisation that houses Maori and Pasifika students so they are in zone for Auckland Grammar School will run a similar scheme for a nearby girls' school.

An Auckland grandmother who gambled away nearly $200,000 she stole from her employer will not go to jail.

It has no bedroom, no bathroom and no power - but it's just sold for close to $1.4 million.