Latest from Papatoetoe

Train death: Police locating body parts

Police are trying to determine the identity of a person who was hit by a train in South Auckland this morning.

Anger as attacker gets bail

A mother who was attacked in the street while neighbours looked on says the courts have failed her after her attacker walked free yesterday on grounds of insanity.

Family escape burning home

Eight people have escaped a Papatoetoe house fire this evening. Two fire crews were called out to the blaze at 8.40pm and were still at the property doing salvage work at 9.15pm.

Hero cops: 'You've got a job, do it'

A squad of Auckland police officers who disregarded their own safety to save the life of a fellow officer today received bravery awards for their heroic actions.

Victim tied up and robbed

An elderly South Auckland woman was tied up and robbed in her own home by a knife-wielding burglar, whose brazen violence has appalled police.

Armed police raid Papatoetoe house

Armed police have been called in to help police raid a house in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe today, and a wanted person has been arrested.

Street legal: Ten years after prostitution decriminalisation

The campaign to clean up Hunter's Corner has created some unlikely bedfellows.

Couple accused of benefit fraud named

The couple alleged to be at the centre of a $375,000 benefit scam can be named for the first time.

More may be charged in $375,000 benefit fraud case

A couple alleged to have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of $375,000 in Work and Income payments have been allowed to keep their names secret for now.