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.

One of the people accused of stabbing a man to death in his car can now be revealed as his wife.

Police have today said they've found the knife used to fatally stab Davinder Singh as he and his wife ate a takeaway meal inside his car in South Auckland.

One person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a house fire in Otara last night.

Two people charged with the murder of Auckland man Davender Singh will be allowed to keep their names secret until next week.

Police have arrested a 31 year old female and 28 year old male in relation to the homicide of Davender Singh.

Sensible Sentencing Trust founder Garth McVicar has been selected to run for the Conservative Party in this year’s election.

A bronze sculpture of an eel worth $30,000 has been recovered from a scrap metal yard, after thieves tried to pawn it off for little more than $300.

The Government will set up an inquiry into crime statistics if it is not satisfied police have cleaned up the mistakes in South Auckland.

Two people are dead and a homicide investigation is underway in Takanini, South Auckland.

A refusal by the police to release any details of their response to wrongly coded burglaries in South Auckland is being called a "snow-job".

Police resolved a dispute between a sex worker and a client who refused to pay - by escorting the man to a cash machine to settle his $100 bill.

An image of an Armourguard cash transit van being held up at gunpoint has been released by police in the hopes of tracking down the would-be robber.

Footage of a vicious robbery of a liquor store, during which an employee had a bottle of spirits smashed over his head, has been released.

Counties Manukau police have busted an Auckland-wide "chop shop" believed to be trading stolen cars with false plates.

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.

Seven young people have been arrested following a police chase from Waikato to Auckland involving two allegedly stolen cars this afternoon.

A south Auckland shopkeeper is furious after being burgled twice in a week by thieves after cigarettes.

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.