Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

A mother and father have been arrested for allegedly beating their eight children with weapons, including sticks and electrical cord - and the woman is pregnant again.

A Steinway grand piano carved with Maori patterns is part of Michael Parekowhai's installation at this year's Venice Biennale.

A man checked into a medical centre with shotgun wounds after an Armed Offenders Squad callout on Auckland's North Shore today.

Two truckloads of Armed Offenders Squad officers descended on a house on Auckland's North Shore after a report of gunshots this afternoon.

A 28-year-old North Shore man has appeared in court over the murder of Jacqueline Blackbourn in a house fire last month.

Police hope to speak to Jacqueline Blackbourn's ex-partner, who is now out of an induced coma, in the next day or two.

A woman who died in a mystery house fire on Auckland's North Shore was an English immigrant who had lived in NZ for 20 years.

Police have confirmed they are investigating a homicide after a woman died in a house fire in the North Shore suburb of Glenfield on Saturday.

He didn't win the big one himself but Saurabh Patel is still a very happy man.

Police hope to learn today whether there are any suspicious circumstances surrounding a house fire that claimed a woman's life at the weekend.

An Iraqi immigrant smashed up and set fire to his Auckland home before allegedly attacking several family members.