Maori get ready to fight firm's plan to put human waste on sacred Puketutu Island.

Many young Pacific offenders in South Auckland are "chameleons" who attend church after committing a crime

Maori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia wrote submissions to the High Court in support of disgraced former MP Taito Phillip Field.

Court 15 in the High Court at Auckland was an inadequate venue for the audience of about 100 supporters of disgraced ex-MP Taito Phillip Field.

Taito Phillip Field's wife says she is heartbroken at six year jail term. Field's lawyer calls it "a tough penalty".

Well-intentioned helpers could place extra pressure on already scarce resources, says pastor.

A former soldier wrestled with a robber for his gun while his wife hit his accomplice with an umbrella during an attempted raid on their dairy.

A teacher aide at a leading Auckland school is charged with impersonating an undercover cop at a massage parlour.

When Albie the cat didn't come home for tea, his owners assumed the two-year-old tabby was busy exploring.

Investigation to follow claims that we are being sold horse meat to eat.

Three boys and their grandparents ran from their burning Mangere East home as flames billowed and smoke blackened the neighbourhood yesterday.

An Auckland bus driver is reunited with a group of students who rescued him during a vicious bashing.

Driver thankful for intervention by schoolchildren.