Fisherman Fred Marsters who died in the Kaipara tragedy has been remembered for his passion, enthusiasm and love for life.

Firefighters have been called to a house fire in Papatoetoe, South Auckland.

Indian students facing deportation for immigration fraud targeted Indian-born National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi in a noisy protest

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.

A Northland woman who revealed her story of sexual and physical abuse in an orphanage has been described as a "courageous warrior

Beverley Lind arrived at the Orphans' Home Papatoetoe as a blonde, brown-eyed, 2-year-old. She left a broken and angry 15-year-old

A truck driver suffered a likely medical event before his vehicle ploughed into two houses in South Auckland this morning.

A family trust that wants to allow housing on a South Auckland volcano says the housing could be around $500,000-$700,000 - aimed at low- and middle-income earners.

Counties Manukau Police have released CCTV footage of a brutal assault against a dairy owner, in the hope that someone will recognise

A youth has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after an attack in a south Auckland car park early this morning.

Ashish Bakshi rushed to help when he heard a loud car crash outside his home in Papatoetoe. In the street he found an unconscious man trapped in his vehicle.

Two people were injured when a car ploughed into a parked car in south Auckland last night.

Guests at an Auckland motel were evacuated earlier today as a shed fire started spreading to the main building.

A man who indecently assaulted and burgled an elderly woman at knife point has been jailed for seven and a half years.

An Auckland Rugby Union hearing was scheduled to take place tomorrow, after a boy allegedly punched a referee, but may be delayed due to another disciplinary process.

A 14-year-old girl had to hold up the boot of a hearse so the body that fell from it at a busy South Auckland intersection could be pushed back inside.

The man who helped load a corpse back into the hearse it fell out of at a busy Auckland intersection has had trouble sleeping since the spooky ordeal.

"I was just parked there and all of a sudden I saw the funeral car's boot open."

Eight people have escaped a Papatoetoe house fire this evening. Two fire crews were called out to the blaze at 8.40pm and were still at the property doing salvage work at 9.15pm.

A squad of Auckland police officers who disregarded their own safety to save the life of a fellow officer today received bravery awards for their heroic actions.

An elderly South Auckland woman was tied up and robbed in her own home by a knife-wielding burglar, whose brazen violence has appalled police.

Armed police have been called in to help police raid a house in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe today, and a wanted person has been arrested.

The campaign to clean up Hunter's Corner has created some unlikely bedfellows.

The couple alleged to be at the centre of a $375,000 benefit scam can be named for the first time.

A couple alleged to have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of $375,000 in Work and Income payments have been allowed to keep their names secret for now.

A couple are alleged to have ripped off taxpayers by hundred of thousands of dollars in welfare payments for dental treatments that never happened.

Two people will appear in court in Auckland tomorrow charged over a benefit fraud involving up to $375,000.

Eight men accused of an alleged Auckland Super City voter scam have had their trial shifted to the High Court.

A supermarket worker sacked over non-payment for a loaf of banana bread she wanted to gift to a blind woman says the incident had "ruined my life".