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

Two Auckland real estate agents and their boss are awaiting punishment for their part in two deals where homes were on-sold for huge mark-ups.

Property deals involving two Auckland houses have seen the Real Estate Agents Authority take action.

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.

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

Police are trying to determine the identity of a person who was hit by a train in South Auckland this morning.

A mother who was attacked in the street while neighbours looked on says the courts have failed her after her attacker walked free yesterday on grounds of insanity.

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.

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".

Relationship with Auckland council on right path as mayor deals with old political divide