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Oven gas leak blamed for fiery explosion
Fire investigators say house explosion was a tragic accident.
Fire investigators say house explosion was a tragic accident.
Bulging Auckland schools will get 41 new classrooms costing $21 million.
Thousands have turned out for the official opening of the Waterview tunnel.
Police want information on two unresolved aggravated robberies.
Survey finds only 37% of primary and intermediate mums and dads can see schoolwork online.
School zones are being rewritten to cope with bulging rolls at 43 Auckland schools.
Government has revealed which Auckland suburbs will get more houses before 2020.
Hundreds of people turned out to march in Manukau yesterday.
Momentum is building against cowboy clampers as Auckland's mayor rejoins the fight.
Eleven members of an Auckland Pacific Island church have been diagnosed with typhoid.
Disease spread by a common source, but this is yet to be confirmed, officials said.
An Auckland shopkeeper lost use of his arm and possibly his business in a violent robbery.
A group of men attacked a young woman and two of her relatives while they were jogging in Mt Roskill.
Seven people, armed with a baseball bat and crowbar, entered the shop.
Jacinda Ardern has taken an unassailable lead in the Mt Albert by-election.
New Mt Roskill MP Michael Wood has spoken of his concerns for working class families in Mt Roskill during his maiden speech in Parliament.
A tenant advocate is hailing the Government for adopting a more "compassionate" line with state house tenants who get involved with drugs.
Thieves smashed drive-through window of Mt Roskill restaurant
The Green Party are to contest the Mt Albert byelection, with a candidate to be selected in the New Year.
Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.
Labour appear quietly thrilled about the prospect of a National Party without John Key.
COMMENT: For National, the Mt Roskill by-election loss could have been much worse. They could have had an Asenati Lole-Taylor on their hands.
The country's newest MP will fly to Wellington tomorrow to join his Labour colleagues at Parliament after winning 21 out of 22 voting booths in the Mt Roskill electorate.
Most Indians who voted in the Mt Roskill byelection swung their support behind Labour keep National's Parmjeet Parmar out, says Roshan Nauhria
Even a close win in Mt Roskill could have been bad new for Andrew Little but the victory will transform the spirits of the party.
Michael Wood's victory in Mt Roskill is a "bloody nose" for the Government, says Labour leader Andrew Little.
Labour leader Andrew Little says that National threw everything at the campaign and lost badly.