Pop and R&B may be teenage heart-throb Justin Bieber's forte, but it was heavy metal he wanted to hear yesterday.

Where you'll live, what sort of house you'll have and how much it'll cost will be influenced by reforms that promise more affordable housing.

A police officer will appear in court on a disorder charge after allegedly verbally abusing a woman and her young son while on a night out drinking with a colleague.

A three-month operation culminated when 120 police swooped on 17 gang properties in Papakura, south Auckland, today.

A man is facing allegations he lived off the taxpayer in state housing while he was a landlord owning two properties.

Millie Elder was with Connor Morris when police stopped Morris and allegedly found methamphetamine and a glass pipe.