Club mates of former All Black Sione Lauaki have paid their respects to the "gentle giant", ahead of his funeral today.

Two people are in hospital after being injured in a car accident in West Auckland early this morning.

Kiwi musician Hamish Gee has been disqualified from and fined $560 after being caught driving with more than double the legal breath alcohol limit.

Parents have been told to talk to their children about stranger danger after Wednesday's suspected abduction attempt in Northcote.

An Auckland schoolboy was approached by an unknown man in a white van yesterday, in what is suspected to be an attempted abduction.

A busy West Auckland road has reopened after a digger ruptured a gas main this morning - in one of two gas leaks today.

The teenager jailed for six years after he stabbed a West Auckland dairy owner to death has been granted regular releases from jail.

An Auckland man led police on a dangerous night pursuit.

A person has died after a serious crash at Kaukapapa, northwest of Auckland.

Where the only limit is your imagination - and belt size.

David Sutherland has spent the past four years rolling the dice on a giant gamble. "It was a big punt really," he says. "We just made it up as we went along."

Auckland Council are promising singletons they will never be alone again if they adopt a dog from one of the three Auckland Council animal shelters in Silverdale, Henderson and Manukau.

The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.

Power is back on in hundreds of homes around the Auckland region after widespread outages overnight.

A fire that destroyed a house and car in West Auckland overnight is believed to be suspicious.

One person is in a critical condition after a crash in West Auckland tonight.

A man was assaulted by a group of youths in West Auckland this afternoon.

An Auckland couple woke to find a strange man in their bedroom in a home invasion overnight.

Steve Braunias examines a murder scene in Te Atatu, where a young killer acted out cruel, sadistic violence on an elderly Chinese woman.

More needs to be done to help children and young people access help, counsellors say, following the deaths of two children.

Junior fisheries officers in Auckland found four people in possession of 260 paua, 258 of which were shucked and all of which were undersized.

A diesel spill briefly closed a section of State Highway 16 near Whenuapai this morning.

Just weeks after his release from prison, Jaden Lee Stroobant murdered and sexually violated a 69-year-old Te Atatu woman.

Three years ago Taryn Gibbs spotted a stray dog beside the Southwestern Motorway. That was the beginning of the mission to rescue "motorway girl".

The sudden deaths of two young girls in the past few weeks - in unrelated incidents - are being investigated.

As hundreds of students return to class parents at two West Auckland schools are being warned a convicted child sex offender is living nearby.

Sitting on her deck and enjoying a cup of tea, Dianne Green noticed something was amiss with her beloved farm animals.

The man who murdered and sexually violated elderly Te Atatu woman Cunxiu Tian went to extraordinary lengths to cover up his crime.

Guilty plea in Te Atatu murder not the end of the story for family in mourning, says church leader

The man accused of murdering elderly Te Atatu woman Cunxiu Tian in her family home will go on trial this morning.