Willie Jackson's urban authority wants to negotiate to buy a troubled rest home tagged for closure at the end of the month.

Broadcaster Willie Jackson is making a last-ditch attempt to save a Mangere rest home slated for closure by the Counties Manukau DHB.

Ronan Keating is heading our way next month but for now he's still dealing with the shock death of his Boyzone pal.

Police have released security footage of three masked men who robbed a South Auckland tavern at gunpoint on Tuesday.

The manager of a South Auckland tavern that was robbed of up to $20,000 yesterday says he is pleased his customers escaped unhurt.

A man arrested in connection with the shooting of an Auckland police officer has been given bail.

A rest home and hospital for the aged in South Auckland will close next month after it failed to meet standards imposed by health authorities.

A hospital bedside hearing is being held today for the man accused of shooting a South Auckland police officer.

Shot in both legs, Constable Snow fell, screaming for help. One bullet severed an artery in his leg and he was bleeding to death.

The policeman shot three times in south Auckland this morning may have died had he not got immediate medical assistance, police said this afternoon.

A man who lived in a state house while he rented out two properties of his own has been sentenced for defrauding the taxpayer.

Police have recovered two guns and are talking to one person of "significant interest" after an officer was shot during a routine patrol in south Auckland this morning.

A cosmopolitan club that refused entry to a turbaned Sikh concedes the club's name stands for inclusion of all races, but says it has a strict no hat rule.

National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is threatening to take a south Auckland club to the Human Rights Commission over its headwear ban.

A jury finds two 20-year-olds guilty of killing Daryl Graydon while he was walking home from a party in Howick, southeast Auckland, in December 2007.

A woman nearly lost an arm when she was attacked by her elderly father-in-law with a sugar cane knife.

Police are investigating after a man was found dead and a woman seriously injured at a house in south Auckland today.