Toi Katipa never expected that he and his family would end up sleeping at the marae because they had become homeless.

An 18-month-old boy locked in a van in South Auckland has been rescued thanks to the quick help of fire crews.

The Government has announced it will spend more than $14 million rebuilding a Manurewa primary school riddled with toxic mould and asbestos.

Not one, but two cats stuck up a tree.

A man who pointed a gun at police during a bail check in Manurewa is on the run in a stolen car and should not be approached.

A South Auckland school was on lockdown earlier today, while police searched for a burglar in the area.

The first person to have her home forcibly sold by Auckland Council because of unpaid rates has been ordered to pay an additional $44,000.

Three girls from Manurewa High School who were caught on camera earlier this month stomping and punching each other have been expelled.

A witness saw a group of girls viciously fighting each other and two police officers trying to break it up, outside the shop next to his.

A car which pinned a man against a South Auckland house, leaving him with serious injuries, was later found by police dumped nearby.

A caretaker at an Auckland school has been hospitalised with facial burns after an accident with a boiler today.

A man has been stabbed in Manurewa today following an argument between two men on the street.

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

A crash that injured four people - including two children - and closed a busy Auckland road yesterday was caused by teens driving a stolen car.

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"Before I had time to think about what was going on, he'd jumped in the back of my car," says a mum left too scared to sleep after a carjacking.

A bronze sculpture of an eel worth $30,000 has been recovered from a scrap metal yard, after thieves tried to pawn it off for little more than $300.

A drunk man who's alleged to have shot his friend in the knee with an air rifle in Alexandra early this morning will face an array of firearms charges.

A man accused of murdering a man in in his south Auckland sleepout will go on trial next year.

Youth worker Flora Apulu tells Elisabeth Easther what she loves about living in culturally diverse Manurewa

A man is dead and three people - including two children - are in hospital in a stable condition following a bus crash in Manurewa yesterday.

An academic says the loophole that lets people buy "lethal" air rifles should be closed following the death of a south Auckland teenager.

A teenager has died after being shot with an airgun he and four friends were playing with while they were drinking at a Manurewa home last night.

A 5-week-old baby was alone in his South Auckland house when he died, and a police child protection team will now investigate.

A 2-month-old baby boy was found dead in his cot by his mother who went to check on the infant who had earlier been put down for a sleep.

Counties Manukau police said a 2-month-old boy died at a residential property in Manurewa.

A supermarket worker sacked over non-payment for a loaf of banana bread she wanted to gift to a blind woman says the incident had "ruined my life".