Hawke's Bay substitute back Gillies Kaka scored a try four minutes from time to deny Counties-Manukau a well-deserved win 31-28 victory.

A local pesticide company is riding high...

Auckland kept alive their semifinals aspirations with a 37-13 win over ITM Cup rugby rivals Counties-Manukau at Pukekohe.

Counties Manukau survived a determined Northland comeback to secure a hard-fought 40-24 bonus point win.

A father accused of killing his son, after allegedly driving his car into the path of a train, displayed appalling driving before the "entirely preventable" incident, a jury was told today.

A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still believes he was part of an undercover police operation.

A pharmacist has been jailed after supplying cold drugs he knew would be turned into P.

A policewoman is in hospital with serious chest and abdominal injuries after a police car was involved in a head-on crash in Pukekoke, south of Auckland, just before 5pm this evening.

A pillar of the community is facing a lengthy prison sentence after a judge dismissed a key part of his defence.

A drunk off-duty police detective exposed his genitals to a woman and her son, a court has heard.

An ex-pharmacist told court he'd been asked by police to keep selling cold medicine to "pill shoppers" to help their surveillance operation.

Stefan Jensen, who suffers from mild dementia, disappeared on June 4 from his son's rural property in Pukekawa, 24km southeast of Pukekohe.