Police visited the workplace of missing escort Carmen Thomas' ex-partner while he was out of the office.

A lone bee has been blamed for a truck crash that cut power to more than 1700 homes and put the driver in hospital.

The police hunt for the killer of Carmen Thomas today moved to rural southeast Auckland, after a newly reported sighting of her car around the time she went missing.

A man was run over and killed by a rubbish truck in South Auckland this morning, say police.

A customer has attacked a staff member with a knife at Amway's head warehouse in the Auckland suburb of East Tamaki.

Jeri Knight might be 80 years old but it didn't stop her beating the might of the Manukau City Council over a wrongly issued car warrant of fitness fine.

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The brother of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been sentenced over an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

An inner city house purchase falling through proved fortuitous for an Auckland couple.

Two people have been charged with assault after a man was fatally struck by a car during a street brawl in south Auckland early this morning.

CYF has been involved with the family of six-month-old Cezar Taylor, who died last night from non-accidental head injuries, numerous times over recent years.

A six-month-old baby hospitalised with head injuries after an alleged assault has died.

Police have found a man wanted in connection with non-accidental injuries inflicted on a 6-month-old child.

Armed police surrounded a house for about two hours on Monday calling for a man wanted in connection with non-accidental injuries inflicted on a 6-month-old child.

Police are hunting James Allan Hemana in relation to an alleged assault on a six-month-old boy who is in hospital with severe head injuries.

The balcony of an apartment from which a teen fell 16 storeys to a concrete floor and survived is to be examined to see if it has been modified.

Police have named the 22-month-old girl killed when she was hit be a reversing car in her family's driveway.