The Fire Service is scaling down operations at a large fire in an industrial area of Auckland.

More than 100 firefighters were last night battling a blaze at a large abandoned cool store already charred by a fire 18 months ago.

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.

Two children are among the people missing after the land beneath their house gave way, causing it to partially collapse.

A 43-year-old Korean woman and her teenaged daughters were found dead in their Christchurch home yesterday.

Police are not looking for suspects after the bodies of three women were found in a Christchuch home this morning.

A 6-year-old boy was killed when fire ripped through a Whanganui house last night.

Nearly a million 111 calls last year were from people bumping the phone, kids playing or prank calls.

Three teenagers were killed and two others left fighting for their lives after their small car collided with a bus yesterday on a notorious stretch of State Highway One.

Agnes was perched on the boot of a car with a mate when her best friend started the engine. For whatever reason, the pair didn't get off.

The Orewa College board of trustees pleads guilty to charges laid against the school after a fatal boiler-room blast last June.

Police yesterday sealed off a suburban Auckland street after a woman barricaded herself in her home and threatened to release nerve gas.