The Super City candidate charged with forging documents to influence the election can now be named, after he decided against appealing a High Court decision refusing to protect his identity.

Police are hunting two men who stormed a bank with a sawn-off shotgun and pushed through the plexiglass teller barrier to steal foreign cash.

Police are investigating a death threat against a political organiser in relation to a possible Super City voting scam in South Auckland.

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.

Search warrants have been executed on about 10 properties in Papatoetoe as part of a police probe into a possible Super City voting scam.

A teenager charged with assault following the death of a man during a street brawl in south Auckland has appeared briefly in court.

Two people have been charged with assault after a man was fatally struck by a car during a street brawl in south Auckland early this morning.

Barely a day after the end of a Queen's Birthday weekend with the lowest road toll in 54 years, two people - one a 3-year-old boy - died in separate crashes.

A child has been killed in a bus crash near the Northland town of Kaeo and another person has died after a crash in Canterbury late today.

The identity of the man accused of trying to murder a policeman, hit four times in a hail of gunfire, remains suppressed.

Organisations discussing how 'social policy forum' will work best.