Police have now identified the family involved and spoken to the child's mother.

Father's angry words at the house where a man was shot in a South Auckland suburb.

Two neighbours banged frantically on doors, walls as fire consumed the house.

An Otara house is on fire. The fire brigade is trying to extinguish it.

Police officers are looking for a man who pulled a gun on them in Otara.

A homeless mother-of-six couldn't find any motel room in Auckland yesterday.

Since opening their first GP practice in Otara, Ranjna Patel and her husband Kanti have built New Zealand's largest independent primary healthcare group.

All lanes are now open following a crash on Auckland's southern motorway today, but drivers can still expect travel delays.

Nearly 5000 people are now in the queue for social housing across the country.

No residential street received more noise complaints this year than this one.

An Auckland teacher who had sex with a 17-year-old student and let the student watch her have sex with her partner has lost her registration.

An initiative keeping children learning over the six weeks of summer break is attracting more interest than ever.

A survivor of the Kaipara Harbour disaster was too big for the lifejackets, and desperately clung to the flotation devices while he swam to shore badly injured.

Child advocates call for access to be simplified

A man has been hurt in an Otara crash tonight.

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget

A fire at a block of Otara units is "well-involved", a fire service spokesman says.

Kia Aroha is one of the only secondary schools in the country that doesn't "do" exams.

A property on a quarter-acre section in Otara that failed to attract a visitor at its first open home has sold for $605,000.

From energy drinks and 'rubbish food day' to vege gardens and lolly bans, a new survey of lunchboxes exposes two tales of eating behaviour in NZ schools.

A police officer was attacked by two men during a routine traffic stop this morning.

Four people have been rescued off the roof of a burning building in South Auckland this morning.

A man has died on a suburban Auckland street this morning.

A man charged with a double stabbing at a South Auckland birthday party and the woman who allegedly tried to help him avoid arrest have denied the offending.

A person has reportedly been stabbed to death this morning. Just after 1am police were called to an address in Otara where a person was stabbed and believed to have died from the injuries.

A car that crashed after fleeing police clipped a pedestrian island at high speed before flipping and hitting an oncoming van.

A 28-year-old has died after the vehicle he was a passenger in crashed while fleeing police in South Auckland.

An Auckland woman is recovering in Middlemore Hospital following a serious assault in Otara overnight.

Sir Owen Glenn has failed to keep his promises to help community organisations in Otara after delivering just a fraction of the money he pledged.