A dedicated police team is following leads on the vicious Riverhead quarry assault.

A quick stop at the market led to the impulse purchase of a winning lotto ticket.

Dune boarder seriously injured after surfing steep slope goes awry.

Security footage from Riverhead timberyards may hold vital clues after a woman was viciously beaten at a nearby quarry.

Watch: Irate dad shoulder-charges a BMX rider after his son was accidentally knocked off his skateboard.

Transport-users lobby group proposes new train service from south to west.

Fire crews have rushed to West Auckland where a shed has gone up in flames.

Starship nurse recounts highs and lows, as part of hospital's 25th birthday.

They came dressed in white - and left the colour of a rainbow.

A call from a member of the public led police to uncover a sophisticated, large-scale commercial cannabis operation in West Auckland.

A 15-year-old youth has been charged with aggravated robbery after an alleged incident at a West Auckland petrol station.

Police are investigating a complaint from a fast-food worker who claims she got into a scuffle with management.

Residents of Oratia are fighting a proposal by Auckland's water company to take their homes for a $300 million-plus water-treatment plant.

Kiwi songstress Anika Moa has tied the knot with partner Natasha Utting in Auckland today.

Club mates of former All Black Sione Lauaki have paid their respects to the "gentle giant", ahead of his funeral today.

Two people are in hospital after being injured in a car accident in West Auckland early this morning.

Kiwi musician Hamish Gee has been disqualified from and fined $560 after being caught driving with more than double the legal breath alcohol limit.

Parents have been told to talk to their children about stranger danger after Wednesday's suspected abduction attempt in Northcote.

The teenager jailed for six years after he stabbed a West Auckland dairy owner to death has been granted regular releases from jail.

An Auckland man led police on a dangerous night pursuit.

A person has died after a serious crash at Kaukapapa, northwest of Auckland.

Motorists in West Auckland are being warned of a power outage in the area that has affected traffic lights in Te Atatu.

Two serious house fires have broken out in the North Island.

Where the only limit is your imagination - and belt size.

David Sutherland has spent the past four years rolling the dice on a giant gamble. "It was a big punt really," he says. "We just made it up as we went along."

Auckland Council are promising singletons they will never be alone again if they adopt a dog from one of the three Auckland Council animal shelters in Silverdale, Henderson and Manukau.

The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.

Power is back on in hundreds of homes around the Auckland region after widespread outages overnight.

A fire that destroyed a house and car in West Auckland overnight is believed to be suspicious.

One person is in a critical condition after a crash in West Auckland tonight.