High profile violent crimes against dairy owners boiled over into frustration for the Manukau Indian Association today.

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.

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 man suffered life-threatening head injuries when he was assaulted in south Auckland early this morning.

With over 10 volcanic craters and cones, Mangere is packed with adventures, writes Diana Clement.