The driver has been taken to Waitakere Hospital for assessment.

Good Samaritan recounts moments after terrifying carjacking in suburban Auckland.

School zones are being rewritten to cope with bulging rolls at 43 Auckland schools.

Some tertiary students are going hungry as living costs are outrunning grants.

The reason for a tightening of sex offender's parole conditions can now be revealed.

Paint recycling project helps clean streets of graffiti crime.

Woman pulled unresponsive from West Wave pool in Auckland.

A person has been rushed to hospital after a water incident in Henderson.

Interactive: Statistics for 2016 show winners and losers by decile.

Driver fleeing police drove the wrong way on the Northwestern Motorway for about a minute.

Heavy storms, rainwater run-off and low-lying land pose a flood risk to about 16,000 properties in the Auckland region.

No one hurt as offenders take cash and flee in early-morning Henderson raid.

Starship nurse recounts highs and lows, as part of hospital's 25th birthday.

The teenager jailed for six years after he stabbed a West Auckland dairy owner to death has been granted regular releases from jail.

David Sutherland has spent the past four years rolling the dice on a giant gamble. "It was a big punt really," he says. "We just made it up as we went along."

Auckland Council are promising singletons they will never be alone again if they adopt a dog from one of the three Auckland Council animal shelters in Silverdale, Henderson and Manukau.

Power is back on in hundreds of homes around the Auckland region after widespread outages overnight.

One person is dead and another is injured after a crash in Henderson this morning.

Steve Braunias has done it. He's eaten Lincoln Rd. His journey ended at the top, at the kingdom of fast food franchises - yeah, he went to McDonald's.

More than two weeks after an 11-year-old boy was abducted and sexually assaulted in West Auckland, other attempted abductions continue to be reported.

Steve Braunias, The man who ate Lincoln Rd, uncovers a "remarkable story" at the new Denny's restaurant in Auckland.

Steve Braunias, The man who ate Lincoln Rd, had read sensational reviews about this place. Here's why he disagrees with them.

Most pizzas are as flat as the Manawatu. But Steve Braunias' latest discovery on Lincoln Rd is something else.

The man who ate Lincoln Rd asked as to the whereabouts of God at a couple of food joints this week.

Tim and Fiona Noble have lost all possessions and the home in which their children grew up - and grandkids loved to visit - has been destroyed by fire.

Babies don't follow plans and little Esme Keene is no exception. She arrived before her dad managed to get her mum to hospital.

The man who ate Lincoln Rd listens to love songs and love stories at Valentines.

Hell Pizza is now 20 years old. Steve Braunias, The man who ate Lincoln Rd, finds out if it's still any good.

The killer who strangled a 13-year-old girl in Auckland in 1976 now appears to have got away with her murder.