Emergency services are attending a water rescue after a near-drowning at Clarks Beach.

Anybody who saw anything suspicious is encouraged to contact police.

A Pukekohe family were holed up in their bathroom after police standoff earlier today.

Two rescuers took one arm each to pull the driver out seconds before the car exploded.

Two fires were discovered at newly built homes in Pukekohe this morning.

Just like humans, dogs donate blood to help save others that are sick or injured.

The "hot spot" suburbs include a number of up-and-coming neighbourhoods, agency boss says.

The Other Side of Crime is a series on Victim Support. Today - why people volunteer.

On a Saturday night in 2013 Tania Gallagher's world collapsed around her.

$25,000 bill to clean up rogue operator's tyre dump near Clevedon.

A motorcycle and a car crashed in Clevedon this afternoon.

Grass fires in Pukekohe causes train to stop

State Highway 22 has reopened after a crash north of Pukekohe.

Thousands are still without power - and one Franklin man isn't happy about the wait.

George Orwell's 1984 is all too real, but we only have ourselves to blame.

With close to three weeks left in the year, 18 cyclists have already killed on our roads.

Police say the man was assaulted late in the evening.

Tuakau College scrambled to find battery-powered laptops for NCEA students in a power cut.

A particularly wet winter has left Kiwi potato farmers millions of dollars out of pocket.

A large sinkhole has formed in a South Auckland road after rainfall.

A man once jailed for breaking into the home of an elderly woman is wanted for a robbery.

Workers at Fletcher's Winstone quarry in Hunua are picketing the quarry today.

Labour will free up Auckland's urban boundary to "turbocharge" affordable housing.

Eventful holiday for Kiwi pair on cruise ship as superstorm approaches.

Labour is poised to ask Aucklanders to help pay for a rapid transit network.

Japanese internees were being taken from Auckland to Australia for a prisoner exchange.

Months of communication has not managed to resolve the tension between the two parties.

More than 20,000 new homes will be built earlier in Auckland under a new initiative

A Plunket clinic is operating in a bus due to health concerns caused by mould.

A motorist who woke to find himself impaled on a fence post tried not to "freak out".