Two police officers ran for their lives when a routine callout resulted in a man allegedly chasing them with a samurai sword.

Police are trying to track down the family of a two-year-old girl found outside an Auckland restaurant on Saturday.

Auckland's farmers' markets are booming, but don't forget the city's traditional markets.

The Govt has opened its first 'simple house', its answer to streamlining the design and build process for first-time buyers.

Police want help after two offenders stole a cash box being dropped off by security guards.

Labour president Andrew Little says the party will act if any of its members are found to have been involved in a Super City voting scam.

Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.

The Govt hopes a new state house will be a heartening example for first-home owners.

Police are investigating a possible attempt to influence the Super City election in which nearly 90 voters have been enrolled as living in two houses.

He was a little adventurer who would "body-slam" his mother to wake her up but he was too young to know the danger of playing in driveways.

Police say the child, thought to be aged about two years, was hit by a vehicle in Otara at about 1.20pm.

Down the southern motorway, entire state house suburbs were created by the Government.