A female motorcyclist who crashed on the Southern Motorway yesterday has died in hospital this morning.

Three motorbike crashes on the country's roads this weekend have left five people hospitalised.

A whitewater centre being built in Manukau will produce the next generation of Olympic athletes, says New Zealand's most successful Olympian.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a "brazen" daylight attack in Papakura, police say.

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.

A Papakura man has been charged with murder following a suspected stabbing in Takanini on Monday night.

One of the sisters jailed for the brutal murder of a south Auckland man has been denied parole.

A 38-year-old man has been spoken to by police investigating the death of another man following an altercation in Auckland last night.

Gardens School in Manurewa was one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis and has been leaking ever since it was built in the late 1990s.

It started out with a few mates wanting to walk around the Manukau Harbour and raise cash for disadvantaged kids.

Police have arrested two men and are searching for a third after an attempted carjacking in Mangere Bridge this afternoon.

Police job sheet raises questions over altered burglary stats.

A South Auckland community's failure to stop a liquor store opening opposite a decile 1 school normalises the sale of alcopops to young people, says principal Robin Staples.

The Grange Golf Club wants to merge with its neighbour the Royal Auckland Golf Club, where Prime Minister John Key plays, in a $100 million deal.

A South Auckland man has been found not guilty of the attempted murder of police officer Sergeant Simon Tate.

An Auckland woman smashed a 77-year-old man in the head and set his legs on fire, before closing the door to his bedroom and leaving him to die, a court has heard.

The wife of a man accused of the attempted murder of a police officer has told a court how her husband's uppercuts left the victim looking like "he had no life in him".

Three teenagers have been seriously injured after an explosion was sparked when a cigarette was lit while they were inhaling butane gas in a South Auckland house.

An Auckland caregiver ripped off taxpayers for nearly $70,000 to try to get her family out of a "tin shed" they were living in, a court heard.

Police are investigating how a man sustained a life-threatening injury while walking home from a family gathering in Otahuhu.

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.

Firefighters are currently dealing with a large chemical spill at a freight yard in South Auckland.

New Zealand First dismissed National’s first-home buyer policy – but also took a swing at Labour for being a party for “gays, lesbians and the loony intelligent left”.

Prime Minister John Key has kicked off National's election campaign in South Auckland with a boost to Government assistance for low and middle income first-time buyers.