Jayde Penney has packed up her family for a new, more affordable life in Rotorua. And she says the benefits far outweigh the sacrifices. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A blaze at a restaurant in a West Auckland shopping mall has now been extinguished.

Police and fire are on their way to Titirangi in West Auckland - to a report of a car on its roof.

Emergency services have cordoned off the public toilets in Glen Eden.

A woman charged with murder following the "girls' day out" stabbing has appeared in court.

Police are still puzzled by an alleged kidnapping from Sylvia Park in September.

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

Firefighters were called out to an Auckland house this morning after a child got its head stuck in a deck.

The man was found slightly dazed and confused but uninjured.

Parents recall the day their 5-year-old boy died at Piha - a place he loved for the freedom it gave him.

The killer who strangled a 13-year-old girl in Auckland in 1976 now appears to have got away with her murder.

The child who died in a "tragic accident" at Piha on Saturday was found on rocks.

Emergency services are at a car crash in Henderson.

A Massey High School student has secured a place at a prestigious music college, the same institution that sparked the careers of John Mayer, Imagine Dragons and Quincy Jones.

Police and the Fire Service are at a West Auckland cemetery tonight following reports a car within the grounds is on fire.

The real estate watchdog is gunning for a high-flying agent's licence, saying his repeated infringements prove he was only motivated by lucrative commission money.

Shocked family members have gathered in mourning after a woman died in a car that crashed down a driveway in West Auckland.

A series of minor crashes are causing traffic problems across parts of Auckland.

A 15-year-old girl was the youngest victim in a spate of stabbings in West Auckland during the weekend.

A woman charged with the murder of mother-of-two Carly Stewart (pictured) looked visibly upset during her first court appearance.

A 36-year-old woman will appear in court this morning charged with the murder of another woman who was fatally stabbed at a house in West Auckland.

Neighbours of a man stabbed in West Auckland last night described harrowing scenes as they tried to help the dying man.

A man killed in a stabbing in West Auckland was seen rushing towards the top of a driveway minutes before he lay there, fatally injured. Neighbours

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The 42-year old victim of a fatal stabbing was a "really nice guy" who lived with his partner and children on the street in which he died.

Officers spent an hour trying to get the 47-year-old man, who was believed to have been under the influence of drugs, out of the pools at Parakai Springs.

The women attending a girls' day out that ended with a fatal stabbing are "like sisters" and the woman now accused of murder was a gatecrasher, says the host.

Neighbours saw women fighting, yelling and one throw a chair before a fatal stabbing at an Auckland home yesterday.

NZ Post has moved to reassure people their post is safe, following a number of incidents.

Six people escape serious injury after four-car crash.