Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

Tim and Fiona Noble have lost all possessions and the home in which their children grew up - and grandkids loved to visit - has been destroyed by fire.

Babies don't follow plans and little Esme Keene is no exception. She arrived before her dad managed to get her mum to hospital.

Firefighters work to cut free a person trapped in their vehicle in a west Auckland street.

Initial fears people may be inside soon passed.

A college student who began a renowned restaurant in his dorm room is hosting a pop-up dining experience tomorrow.

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.

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.

Would-be millionaires are flocking to Lotto stores around the country for tonight's big draw.

A man has been seriously injured while climbing a tree after it came into contact with power lines in west Auckland this afternoon. Emergency

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.

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 relative has described Te Atatu stabbing victim Carly Jasmin Lainala Stewart as "a beautiful soul who loved her family so much".

Drama erupted in the Waitekere District Court this afternoon when the man accused of stabbing Ronald Clayton Karipa​ in Glendene appeared.

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

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget