Auckland Region

Aucklanders alone send 100,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill every year. Now food scrap bins are being rolled out across the city to help use that food for fuel. Audio

An overstayer who was detained after a dawn raid in South Auckland last month has been granted a temporary visa and will no longer be deported.

Measles is more contagious than Covid-19, and the two recent cases should serve as a warning to the public and health authorities, an expert says.

About 90 people at a school where measles was found do not have proof of immunity to the dangerous disease, and a chemist has been listed as a possible exposure point.

Ethan Hallett was reduced to being a "dead-eyed zombie" during his three-and-a-half month "incarceration" in Waitakere Hospital, his mother says.

Poor design and maintenance of drains is the main reason behind the extent of damage caused by recent weather events, Muriwai residents on Auckland's west coast say.

The woman charged with murdering two children whose bodies were found in abandoned suitcases is fighting to keep her name secret.

MetService is warning of more 'intense bursts' of rain, high winds and thunderstorms across much of the country, ahead of a cool change later in the week. Audio

The Gulf Harbour ferry has earned the title of most cancelled service on the Auckland network after nearly 40 percent of its scheduled trips were cancelled in 2022. Audio

A meeting has been held in Auckland between the government and those who lived through dawn raids past and present.

Church services, tree plantings and 21-gun salutes marked King Charles' Coronation in Aotearoa.

Vaccination efforts are being ramped up across Auckland this weekend in the wake of two measles cases on the North Shore.

Police were called to Browns Road, Manurewa, to investigate reports of shots fired at a property.

"Our little warrior" - those were a mother's words in court before the man who brutally killed her daughter was sentenced to life in jail.

Streams and rivers are rising and flooding has been reported in North Taranaki, Civil Defence says. Audio

"People who live in areas that don't flood aren't feeling quite so worried about this as you are," Wayne Brown told them.

A homeless man who violently preyed on two strangers - trying to run over a jogger and 24 hours later sexually violating and fatally strangling Lena Zhang Harrap - has been sentenced to life in…

Mount Street in Auckland's CBD is cordoned off following a fire in an apartment block.

Students and staff at an Auckland high school are being told to stay away while health authorities investigate a case of measles.

The young woman who died on an Auckland motorway on Boxing Day after an alleged kidnapping was Katelyn Rua-Tuhou.