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

Their hits may hark back to the 90s but The Prodigy continues to leap-frog the "dated" box and to attract fresh-faced ragers.

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.

A 29-year-old mother faces a murder charge for leaving her 13-month-old baby in a bath.

Will teen bride-to-be Sophie avoid the Shortland Street wedding curse?

Where you'll live, what sort of house you'll have and how much it'll cost will be influenced by reforms that promise more affordable housing.

The dream of first home ownership will be made easier by Prime Minister John Key's likely tax reforms, economists said today.

Two women were car-jacked at gunpoint while sitting in a McDonalds carpark in the early hours of this morning.