Burger chain Wendy’s has failed to get a High Court judge to revoke resource consent for a development next to one of its restaurants where a Carl’s Jr is planned.

A young mother and her newborn baby lived in a car for two days after finding themselves homeless when they were discharged from hospital.

The child stabbed in the head in a classroom altercation in Mangere hasn't woken from his coma since the incident.

A 10-year-old received critical stab injuries in a fight at a South Auckland school, and two teens were injured in another unrelated stabbing incident in the area today.

The rescue of a man was delayed by about an hour by live power lines, a coroner has heard.

Emergency workers have described how they watched signs of life ebb away from an Auckland man trapped inside a wreckage surrounded by live power-lines.

When Acting Sergeant Steve Pike was shielding himself from a gunman who’d just shot another officer four times, he was expecting ‘‘bullets to go flying’’.

Prehistory's meatiest monsters are hanging out with nature's most ethereal critters - butterflies, writes Dionne Christian.

Police believe they are close to identifying suspects involved in a violent early-morning assault in South Auckland.

An Auckland mother with terminal cancer who is sharing a two-bedroom flat with her four sons is worried they won't cope in the small space as her condition deteriorates.

Almost 1000 properties in South Auckland were without power this morning following an outage on the Vector network.

Wendy's has gone to the High Court at Auckland after a development of a rival fast-food restaurant blocked an exit from one of the burger chain's Auckland stores.

A south Auckland man says he feared for his life when he was attacked by armed robbers in the driveway of his home and says 'they could have done anything'.

The mother of a 2-year-old whose gravestone was destroyed says it was easy to forgive the relative responsible.

Two suspicious fires which occurred in South Auckland overnight are under investigation.

The death of a person in the south Auckland suburb of Flat Bush yesterday is not suspicious, police say.

The death of a person in south Auckland yesterday is being investigated by police.