The phrase "I'd rather be dead than cool" on a rental vehicle was deemed offensive.

A serious smash closes a major West Auckland road.

Drones have been illegally flying over residential areas spooking locals.

A mobile dentistry clinic is being launched for needy families in West Auckland

At least one Piha resident is sleeping in her car following a series of suspicious fires.

A 28-year-old man will appear court today in relation to a mugging early this morning.

Police are looking for a firebug after a spate of suspicious fires at Piha.

The reason for a tightening of sex offender's parole conditions can now be revealed.

Steve Braunias ate at every food joint on Lincoln Rd. Now some new ones have opened.

Woman pulled unresponsive from West Wave pool in Auckland.

A person has been rushed to hospital after a water incident in Henderson.

A man has died and a woman has been rushed to hospital after an incident in West Auckland.

The car was heard "screaming" onto an Auckland motorway before it left the road & flipped.

The 16-year-old was a promising rugby player and the grandson of a prominent kaumatua.

Family and friends are mourning the 16-year-old grandson of a prominent kaumatua.

Family members were looking for the boy after he was late arriving home.

One in six Kiwi 15-year-olds is now online for at least six hours every weekday.

Emergency services were called to Ranui train station this morning.

Interactive: Statistics for 2016 show winners and losers by decile.

The offensive slogan was one of many to spark a complaint against the company.

The council is working on getting roads up and running after intense flooding last month.

Nine years after starting to clean houses, Chinese migrant Anna Feng owns two of her own.

Eleven members of an Auckland Pacific Island church have been diagnosed with typhoid.

This morning 7 people have been taken into custody after a police raid in Avondale.

Millennials share how they've managed to buy their first Auckland homes.

New Lynn's Fruitvale School will get a new $9.5 million classroom block.

Driver fleeing police drove the wrong way on the Northwestern Motorway for about a minute.

Four people are injured, one seriously, in a three-car crash in West Auckland.

Four-day search for woman around Mercer Bay loop track has been suspended for the evening.

Officials will remind all schools that compulsory "BYO device" policies are illegal.