A five-year-old boy hit by a car outside a South Auckland pre-school has been discharged from hospital.

A 5-year-old boy was in a serious condition last night after he was hit by a car outside a kindergarten centre in South Auckland.

Road workers were shocked when they saw children playing on a motorway overpass in South Auckland last Thursday.

Police are trying to track down the family of a two-year-old girl found outside an Auckland restaurant on Saturday.

The slain Kahui twins' grandfather today admitted lying to police to protect his son Chris, an inquest into the twins' deaths has heard.

A driver accused of deliberately swerving into a woman's oncoming car has been cleared of her murder. Faaotaota Faaotaota was instead convicted of manslaughter, a charge he had admitted.

Two men who escaped from the Manukau District Court about 10am yesterday are dangerous and not to be approached by members of the public, police say.

The father of a schoolgirl sent to South Africa after she was bullied at Howick College says the school is in denial if it thinks hers is an isolated case.

Puketutu Island in Auckland's Manukau Harbour is to be turned into a regional park.

Thieves posing as bank workers have swindled an 81-year-old Franklin man out of his savings, another in a series of elderly people who have been targeted by scammers in south Auckland.

One witness has told a murder trial the accused was kissing his girlfriend before he crashed into a car, and another that they were arguing.

A man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately swerving into her car said he "might as well" kill himself, a court had been told.

A man has admitted killing his two friends when he sped away from police and crashed into two power poles.

Miniature trains have enjoyed a rise in popularity over the past few years thanks to a certain engine called Thomas.

Auckland's farmers' markets are booming, but don't forget the city's traditional markets.

The Govt has opened its first 'simple house', its answer to streamlining the design and build process for first-time buyers.