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.

Firefighters worked to stem a gas leak at a large chicken processing factory.

Sarah Godwin teams with choir to pay tribute to her son who went missing 25 years ago.

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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.

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.

Police called in as pets' bodies found stacked against a tree in Titirangi.

Tania Webb speaks of a "beautiful" outcome of telling her home ownership dream story.

Heavy storms, rainwater run-off and low-lying land pose a flood risk to about 16,000 properties in the Auckland region.

Dame Susan Devoy says some New Zealanders need to be reminded that this country is a land of many races.

Police are at a property in Timandra Place in Massey after reports of a minor explosion.

Proposed path will weave along Whau riverbank.

The man is accused of kidnapping a 23-year-old woman and assaulting her.

The cause of death is not yet known, but photos show possible blunt force trauma to the head.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

Witness Darryl Brown said he wanted to join in with the dam riders in the weekend.

Flooding reached worrying heights in Gurvinder Singh's small apartment.

In the driving rain, a bit of number eight wire thinking saved an auditorium from flooding.

Nine businesses in New Lynn are closed today because of the flooding.

A section of a main New Lynn street remains cordoned off with parts of a footpath now a giant gaping hole with an impassable sheer drop.

The victim was "extremely relieved" to hear the news of the man's arrest.

Auckland residents have begun cleaning up drenched homes and filing insurance claims after a massive storm saturated the region.