A picture is emerging of the man who destroyed dozens of children's graves at an Auckland cemetery, police say.

The man who desecrated dozens of children’s graves at a South Auckland cemetery was caught on CCTV footage, police say.

A big state-owned site in Auckland once earmarked for social and affordable housing is being carved up for sale.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a "brazen" daylight attack in Papakura, police say.

Counties Manukau police are hunting this man after a robbery at a Papakura bar last night.

Papakura couple Junior and Kim Sipeli have missed out on a $10,000 gift from the Government because they bought their first house two months too soon.

Nisha Rani told her attacker to take whatever he wanted, "just don't harm me". He even took cash from a shrine.

The teenager who was found dead outside a Waikato hospital died instantly when she was hit by a car in the Kaimai Range, according to a post-mortem.

A man and a woman allegedly stole a car, abducted a man who accidentally ran over their female companion in the middle of the night and then dumped her body.

A man has been found guilty of the murder of New Zealander Brent Dumper at his daughter's house-warming party on the Gold Coast.

A house-warming party fuelled by alcohol and drugs led to a New Zealand man being shot in the back and killed, a Brisbane court has heard.

Flames reached as high as nine metres today as a South Auckland home was engulfed in a blaze.

Every winter, Taleni Lafo has to take her two young children to hospital because they become sick from the cold.

The party's third-ranked candidate and foreign affairs spokesman, John Minto, told reporters the party wanted all New Zealand troops recalled from Afghanistan before Christmas.