The engineer was called in to work last night but never made it home.

Cancer-stricken widow, 72, fights sale of home she is due to leave this week.

Groups of girls from two Auckland colleges filmed publicly brawling in uniform.

The Government has refused to support a new free advocacy service for the poor.

Crown names gang ghost unit as 'hired muscle' in kidnap of woman found bound and gagged.

Fire crews pull woman from manhole.

Fiery crash closes a road and cuts power to thousands - but the driver is missing.

Hundreds of people turned out to march in Manukau yesterday.

Joyrider takes out lamppost in Manurewa.

Private house buying companies likened to clothing trucks and finance firms.

An ill pensioner is scrambling to save her house after selling it in a private sale.

Students leaders from South Auckland will take part in a new production: Southside Rise.

Family of drowned angler keen to meet the man who retrieved his body.

A multiple-car crash causes delays near Takanini.

A man is in a serious condition in Middlemore Hospital following the attack.

A body has been found in Wattle Bay, Manukau Heads, police say.

Father's angry words at the house where a man was shot in a South Auckland suburb.

Police have revealed dramatic new details of a shooting in Flat Bush.

A father is still missing in the Manukau Harbour, an air search continues this afternoon.

Searchers will take to the skies at low tide to look for a missing fisherman.

Multiple incidents for commuters is causing delays on Auckland's motorways.

A girl was saved after three hours in the Manukau Harbour, father still missing.

Her father is still missing after the pair's fishing boat capsized.

Girl rescued and search under way for man after boat was found adrift in Manukau Harbour.

Auckland Prison was in lockdown this afternoon after two inmates attacked staff.

A south Auckland business is teaching staff about budgeting to avoid high-interest loans.

Two neighbours banged frantically on doors, walls as fire consumed the house.

Police call off search for a man believed to be in the water, and on phone, at Hunua.

An Otara house is on fire. The fire brigade is trying to extinguish it.

The man was speaking to emergency services on his phone - until it cut out.