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