An on-duty taxi driver who blew a reading of more than four times the legal breath-alcohol limit told police he'd had "one Kingfisher beer".

A member of the public has been hospitalised after being injured during an altercation at a bank robbery in Auckland today, police say.

Fire crews are decontaminating a plane at Auckland International Airport after a vial of blood was spilled.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

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.

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.

A senior fire fighter was "grasping at straws" as he asked a power company engineer to cut electricity to an Auckland suburb as they tried to reach a dying man.

A 29-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious burns after a domestic incident this morning.

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.