Emergency services are at the scene of a serious house fire in South Auckland.

A group of four women assaulted a South Auckland shop keeper before making off with a cache of cigarettes this afternoon.

A house has gone up in flames in Manukau's Clover Park area.

On the eve of the annual Labour party conference, Claire Trevett looks at the party's battle plan to to take back Auckland in 2017.

Jayde Penney has packed up her family for a new, more affordable life in Rotorua. And she says the benefits far outweigh the sacrifices. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Guy Fawkes weekend has officially started for South Auckland fire crews.

A grassroots community effort to clean up a polluted South Auckland waterway has been hailed with a national award naming the Puhinui Stream the country's "most improved river".

Neighbours kicked in the door and broke windows of a burning house to check if anyone was inside.

It was a busy Wednesday night for Auckland fire crews, who were called to at least four fires in the region.

A south Auckland home was set alight by a lightning bolt during yesterday's violent thunderstorms.

A man caught with an arsenal of military-style guns during a raid on a meth lab has been handed a jail sentence of more than 12 years.

More than 80 rubbish collectors have been seriously injured on the job by dangerous items thrown away by Auckland residents in the past two years.

Police are still puzzled by an alleged kidnapping from Sylvia Park in September.

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

A truck carrying a house has been involved in a crash tonight.

Paramedics and police have been called to a crash in South Auckland tonight.

A truck has rolled and is blocking a motorway on-ramp in south Auckland, police say.

Would-be millionaires are flocking to Lotto stores around the country for tonight's big draw.

A man has appeared in court for stealing more than $27,600 from 29 people over a course of three months.

Two investigations are under way into the suspected suicide of a mental health patient who had fled a psychiatric hospital and was missing for weeks.

A 15-year-old Auckland girl has been referred to youth aid following dawn police raids this morning.

Brazen thieves who robbed a couple as they slept began taking photos of themselves flaunting their stolen property just a few hours later.

A man has died after driving off an embankment in a rural town 45km southwest of Auckland central this morning.

A digger is understood to have crashed into the Penrose overbridge on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

A group contesting the rezoning of land at Ihumātao in South Auckland, says a new archaeological discovery casts doubt on the accuracy of Fletchers' report.

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget

The Prime Minister has visited more than three times as many high decile schools this year, than low decile.

Seema Prasad says she felt scared and intimidated after her vehicle was clamped in what she feels was a hard-line approach by a clamping company.

Life sentence for man who kicked and stomped his friend to death.