Water supply to Howick and Bucklands Beach areas should be back to normal today after a valve failure.

Two undercover police officers were shot at close range, one fatally, after they and a colleague was sprung trying to put a tracking device on a car, a jury has been told.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.

A small stencil used by Sir Edmund Hillary to mark crates for one of his expeditions is likely to go on show in the Hillary family home.

A bus passenger was taken to hospital after she was hit in the head by an object thrown through the bus window.

A crime prevention programme reduced suburban burglaries by more than 60 per cent in a recent trial.

A motorcyclist was spotted travelling along a busy stretch of SH1 at a speed described by one officer as unsurvivable if there was a crash.

Sir John Walker lobbies ministers to help his successful youth programmes.

A man charged with murdering an elderly woman in her home has told a court he is guilty of her manslaughter.

A south Auckland store owner caught selling counterfeit Michael Jackson CDs will be sentenced next month.

The lawyer representing the man accused of a hit-and-run murder says he intended only to steal the victim's bag.

A businesswoman was run down and killed after she chased a thief who allegedly snatched her handbag, a court has heard.