A male surfer waved for help and was pulled from the ocean by a member of the public at a South Auckland beach today.

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A person has reportedly been stabbed to death this morning. Just after 1am police were called to an address in Otara where a person was stabbed and believed to have died from the injuries.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.

Robbers crashed a car last night after an armed robbery at a service station.

A man whose dog was chased by police, pepper sprayed and unlawfully shot dead has received an official apology.

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.

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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.

Labour's new Manukau East MP and Parliament's first Tongan-speaking member, Jenny Salesa, says she has been overwhelmed by the tremendous support from voters.