Two men held a knife to a taxi driver's throat before pushing him out of his cab and driving off - for $30 in coins.

Artist Don Binney has been attracted to the Waitakere coast since childhood.

A teenager is missing, presumed drowned, after he was washed off his boogie board at Piha yesterday.

A man who was out walking his dogs says one of the pets led him to a severely injured teenager who had been attacked in a park with his girlfriend.

A young mother frantically tried to revive her baby daughter after finding the infant floating face down in the bath next to her twin.

Residents say they heard screams for help, moaning and sobbing in a park where a couple were violently attacked early yesterday.

Police are trying to establish what up to five men were doing on Piha Beach's Lion Rock in the moments before two of them fell 60m.

The first medical officer on the scene after two men fell from Piha's Lion Rock found one man hardly breathing and the other with mangled legs.

Two men are fighting for their lives after falling more than 20 metres from Lion Rock on Auckland's west coast early today.

The Fire Service believes a fire this morning at a west Auckland day care centre was deliberately lit.