A fisherman plucked from Manukau Harbour after spending five hours in choppy waters has been discharged from hospital.

Ambulance staff left quickly to take a patient to hospital, not realising a medical supplies bag was missing.

Two days ago the base ingredient for shampoo spilled on the road. This morning, it rained.

The road is closed after a motorcycle collided with a car and a power pole in South Auckland this afternoon.

A homeless man photographed receiving a slice of wedding cake from kind hearted newlyweds has spoken of the touching gesture.

COMMENT: I've been doing it since 1992 and seen my fair share of ups and downs, and every form of human life.

A Lotto player who bought their ticket in South Auckland has won $1 million in tonight's draw.

South Auckland pizza worker punched during shop robbery.

Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at a medical centre in South Auckland.

George Siaosi was farewelled more than a year after a drunken brawl ended with his skull cracked, but police say they cannot charge his attacker over the death.

Boy missing for two weeks returns of his own accord.

A boy has been missing for nearly a fortnight and police hold fears for his health.

Crash brings down powerlines.

Police have arrested two people who tried to flee after they crashed their car into a house early this morning.

Police are hunting Jayden Mills and are appealing to the public for help.

A person has been injured in a car crash in Manurewa, South Auckland, this morning.

Auckland and Bay of Plenty worst hit, but authorities say reduction efforts have worked.

A car has slammed into a lamp post and then a tree in Mangere in South Auckland.

Counties Manukau Police have this evening arrested a man who has evaded police for months. Milton Lester Hira was arrested tonight

Valerie Adams visited her mother's grave today, after news she has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Wanted man dodges police after removing electronic monitoring bracelet.

A man who survived an Auckland house fire that killed members of his family is showing signs of recovery in hospital, supporters say.

An 11-year-old girl who escaped the fatal house fire which claimed the lives of her mother, brother and grandmother is inconsolable with grief.

Steve Braunias looks back on a year of thinking dangerously.

A fundraising effort has begun for a man whose wife, son and mother-in-law died in a fire yesterday.

As summer starts to heat up, Kiwis are getting creative in a bid to stay cool.

WATCH: Families are facing a bleak Christmas in cramped motel rooms that are costing taxpayers thousands of dollars each week.

Three generations of the family of a prominent New Zealand refugee advocate have died in fatal house fire in South Auckland earlier today.

Children are feared dead after a blaze in a South Auckland home claims three lives.

A neighbour says she can't get the sound of cries out of her head after a house fire killed three people in South Auckland this morning.