Matthew Hunt developed the art of de-escalating tense or potentially violent situations.

Mourners gathered outside the police cordon, and left flowers outside Henderson station.

A man presented at a North Shore Hospital with gunshot wounds early today.

At first locals thought the bangs were from nearby construction. Then they heard another.

Over six hectic hours, a manhunt spread across West Auckland.

The officer was responding to a routine traffic stop when the shooting took place.

"This is a shocking situation," Coster said of a police officer being shot dead.

A witness was left visibly shaken after happening upon a police shooting in Massey.

Name released in homicide investigation after body found buried off Desert Rd.

An Auckland house is being searched in connection to a body found buried off Desert Rd

Auckland school, cow conference, wedding all suspected clusters.

It is only the second recorded stranding of pygmy killer whales reported in New Zealand.

Property tests positive for meth, tenants blame furniture.

Methane, carbon monoxide found deep underground - likely due to rotting vegetation.

Worryingly, the thieves knew exactly where the iPads were kept.

Two 20-litre drums of nitric acid have spilled across the road.

The cyclist was critically injured last week in the Massey incident.

Victim kicked in the chest as he attempted to stop the brazen thieves.

A woman attacked in Browns Bay has described the moment a man punched her repeatedly.

One person taken by ambulance to Auckland City Hospital with critical injuries.

A man who stepped in to help after a homicide in West Auckland has been recognised by cops

Locals hope that police are "familiar with his movements".

Peter Lee's false representations likely breached the Fair Trading Act

A resident took the child in, changed his nappy and bathed him.

New rules may force more students to attend their local schools.

A Massey house has been gutted by fire this evening.