Fire crews are decontaminating a plane at Auckland International Airport after a vial of blood was spilled.

A woman who wet her pants at a haunted amusement park is upset a photo of the incident is being used to market the company on social media.

A retired truck driver from south Auckland has claimed a $10.7 million prize from last Saturday's Lotto.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

A male surfer waved for help and was pulled from the ocean by a member of the public at a South Auckland beach today.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.

A senior fire fighter was "grasping at straws" as he asked a power company engineer to cut electricity to an Auckland suburb as they tried to reach a dying man.

A 29-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious burns after a domestic incident this morning.

Robbers crashed a car last night after an armed robbery at a service station.

A man whose dog was chased by police, pepper sprayed and unlawfully shot dead has received an official apology.

A female motorcyclist who crashed on the Southern Motorway yesterday has died in hospital this morning.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a "brazen" daylight attack in Papakura, police say.

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.

A Papakura man has been charged with murder following a suspected stabbing in Takanini on Monday night.

One of the sisters jailed for the brutal murder of a south Auckland man has been denied parole.

A 38-year-old man has been spoken to by police investigating the death of another man following an altercation in Auckland last night.

Four of the best parks and outdoor spaces to take your kids.

Gardens School in Manurewa was one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis and has been leaking ever since it was built in the late 1990s.

It started out with a few mates wanting to walk around the Manukau Harbour and raise cash for disadvantaged kids.