A hospital bedside hearing is being held today for the man accused of shooting a South Auckland police officer.

Shot in both legs, Constable Snow fell, screaming for help. One bullet severed an artery in his leg and he was bleeding to death.

The policeman shot three times in south Auckland this morning may have died had he not got immediate medical assistance, police said this afternoon.

A man who lived in a state house while he rented out two properties of his own has been sentenced for defrauding the taxpayer.

Police have recovered two guns and are talking to one person of "significant interest" after an officer was shot during a routine patrol in south Auckland this morning.

A girl, 2, helping her mother wash the family car was killed after another child climbed into the vehicle and released the hand brake.

A cosmopolitan club that refused entry to a turbaned Sikh concedes the club's name stands for inclusion of all races, but says it has a strict no hat rule.

National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is threatening to take a south Auckland club to the Human Rights Commission over its headwear ban.

A jury finds two 20-year-olds guilty of killing Daryl Graydon while he was walking home from a party in Howick, southeast Auckland, in December 2007.

A woman nearly lost an arm when she was attacked by her elderly father-in-law with a sugar cane knife.

Police in New Zealand and Australia are cracking down on alcohol related crime this weekend in the first joint operation between the two countries.

Following a south Auckland booze blitz which nabbed 81 alleged drink-drivers on Saturday night, nzherald.co.nz today followed those and other offenders through the courts.

All Black Keven Mealamu describes witnessing the tragic death of his niece at a family touch tournament.