A woman who vandalised graves at an Auckland cemetery earlier this year - mostly of children and stillborn babies - has been found

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

His wife's scream was all that alerted an Auckland driver to an oncoming train.

#WillSheVote? Hinekia Fitzgerald has made her decision.

Landowners on three Auckland sites who were told to hurry up or lose fast-track building rights 16 months ago have sat by while land values have skyrocketed.

Nearly 1000 mourners gather to farewell teen who died last month in Whitianga.

#WillSheVote? Lifelong Local Body election non-voter Hinekia Fitzgerald hears from candidates on her journey to the polls.

Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a local body election. Will this election be different?

A homeless solo mother of three who was given a voucher for a motel room had to give one child to her parents because there was no space for all of them in the motel.

Housing NZ has bought a motel to help meet the area's housing shortage - but the existing residents will have to move out to make room for the homeless.

Sprucing up tired town centres, public safety and managing ongoing residential growth are the biggest concerns for Manurewa-Papakura ward voters.

Developers who pushed for fast-track development rights in some of Auckland's special housing areas are now walking away from the process.

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

The man who at the centre of an armed offenders call out in Papakura today has died.

A truck full of milk is on fire on a dock in the Auckland suburb of Papakura.

A woman with stab wounds ran onto the road carrying a baby and screaming for help this afternoon, a witness has described.

One of the more basic properties in Papakura is probably now also one of the cheapest.

A prefab-style house in Papakura is for sale with a price tag of more than half a million dollars.

The northbound lanes of Auckland's Southern Motorway just before the Papakura on ramp are now open following a serious crash involving multiple vehicles.

Thomas Shortcliffe allegedly cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet in the latest among a series of incidents involving offenders tampering with GPS anklets.

Dozens of graves - for mostly children and stillborn babies - were trashed in Auckland cemetery.

A four car pile up on the southern motorway could cause headaches for commuters this morning.

The fifth seal in two weeks has come to shore in South Auckland - this time in Manurewa. Earlier this afternoon a seal had been spotted in Wattle Downs, Manurewa. That seal has since been returned to its natural habitat by the Department of Conservation.

The fifth seal in two weeks has come to shore in South Auckland - this time in Manurewa.

It is not the infamous seal that took over a car wash in the area earlier this week... this time, it's a baby!

A struck-off doctor turned scrap-metal dealer has had convictions for receiving stolen vehicles upheld after a six-year legal battle.

There were 14 seal-related injury claims last year. One person was even bitten on the bum.

Watch: DOC officers finally capture loose seal that caused chaos in South Auckland and "freaked out" morning commuters.