Auckland Region

Those with a skin rash, bumps, blisters or sores should seek health advice, officials said.

Staff at a shop in Takapuna had to lock themselves in a back room as four people in balaclavas forced their way in.

Police said the two people involved were known to each other and there is no ongoing threat to the public.

It is the third attack on the sculpture in a month, "another blow" for staff at Auckland's Botanic Gardens.

One person has been seriously injured by a falling shipping container in South Auckland.

Parnell City Lodge owner Peter Van De Wiel, 78, vows to stay despite court order telling him to pay up and leave the property.

Extra patrols have been put on in Helensville, Kumeū and Huapai.

A police car has been stolen and crashed in Auckland while officers dealt with an urgent situation.

Police unsuccessfully tried to stop the car, then decided not to chase it.

An Auckland father of two has set his own low-cost, system to help him find love.

The body of a swimmer missing off Auckland's southern coast has been found.

Violent incidents at Middlemore Hospital's emergency department has nearly halved with extra security guards on the job.

A large house fire in South Auckland's Papatoetoe on Thursday evening has been extinguished.

A 19-year-old man has been charged in relation to an assault on Wednesday that left a person seriously injured.

There was commotion and excitement at a beach north of Auckland after yet another shark sighting - but swimmer Richie Wattson had already seen one.

Uncertainty still looms over parks, hit in Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary floods.

Police are working to figure out exactly what happened.

There has been another shark sighting this summer, this time at Omaha Beach which was packed with beachgoers.

Police have confirmed that Hiran Joseph, 19, went missing at Karioitahi Beach in Auckland yesterday.