Forget Beefsteaks and cherry tomatoes, little Otto Madsen has a tomato to trump the rest.

A fisherman plucked from Manukau Harbour after spending five hours in choppy waters has been discharged from hospital.

The road is closed after a motorcycle collided with a car and a power pole in South Auckland this afternoon.

Crash brings down powerlines.

Valerie Adams visited her mother's grave today, after news she has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Victim's family happy police officer who pushed teen off bike will escape charges.

Jade Howard Moore, who helped a diabetic mum who collapsed earlier this year, is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.

A health expert says the woman who left a dead newborn baby in a park would be showing signs something was wrong.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Here are extracts from the five new faces on Auckland Council.

Paramedics and police have been called to a crash in South Auckland tonight.

A 15-year-old Auckland girl has been referred to youth aid following dawn police raids this morning.

Brazen thieves who robbed a couple as they slept began taking photos of themselves flaunting their stolen property just a few hours later.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

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

A man charged in relation to the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler has lost a bid for name suppression.

High school in 2016 has become a playground for the logistical mastermind.

Serial dung-slinger was back in court today - and his defence as to why he threw manure at a judge was unique, to say the least.

Two teens have been charged and two more referred to Youth Aid following a street brawl that spilled into a South Auckland KFC restaurant.

Up to 100 students involved in a brawl that spilled from an Auckland street into a KFC restaurant.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

New Zealanders will light up the darkness on 17 mountaintops next month as a message of hope for families struggling to cope with suicides by loved ones.

One of the biggest traditional Samoan houses to be built outside of the islands will be officially opened in South Auckland today.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old in her Mangere home.

A former market garden with a 1920s brick and tile home in Mangere sold at auction this week for $4.7 million - almost $3.5m over its council valuation.

Three teens pointed a gun at an Auckland woman after she found them breaking into her home.

Animated webseries Aroha Bridge started life as a weekly comic strip, created by Jessica Hansell, better known as local rapper Coco Solid.

A humble 80sq m cottage has sold for $1.72 million - more than $700,000 over its current council valuation.

The plight of an 11-year-old girl at Te Puea Marae with a love for reading has prompted a donation of more than 200 books.

A "high risk" sex offender housed metres from a Auckland school has been moved after a public outcry - near another school.