Auckland Region

Police are appealing for sightings of a dangerous prisoner who failed to return to jail after he was granted permission to attend a funeral.

One person has died at the scene of a crash in Auckland last night, and four other people have been left injured.

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While Aucklanders may only just be returning from sunning themselves on the beach, the race to become the city's next mayor is already heating up.

Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust chief executive Nicola MacDonald says the rāhui will be put in place on Waitangi Day.

New Zealand needs to overhaul its Covid-19 community isolation scheme and better fund GPs and primary healthcare workers on the front line, a new paper says.

A series of road diversions due to roadworks on State Highway 22 are dangerous and leading to an increase in serious car crashes, residents say.

The man was reportedly swimming with a friend on Tuesday night and got into trouble.

Families across Aotearoa are making contingency plans for loved ones in aged care after an Auckland rest home's suspected close call with the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Hobson Bay residents fearing their health is at peril are frustrated it might take more than a decade to fix the issues that are causing wastewater and sewerage to leach into the environment.

A transport advocacy group says the new partially-tunnelled light rail project in Auckland is a waste of money and will not serve the intended purpose.

The Waiheke ferry terminal in downtown Auckland has become a close-contact location of interest for Covid-19.

An Auckland-based charity group says the government needs to provide more culturally-appropriate help for struggling families.

Fire-fighters say the house in the suburb of Panmure was well alight when they arrived shortly before 11 o'clock last night.

National infrastructure spokesperson Simon Bridges says the project is wasted spending while transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says Aucklanders have given up believing it will happen.

Auckland's long awaited light rail project will run from Wynyard Quarter to Mt Roskill before surfacing and running alongside SH20 to the airport.

Three options were presented to Cabinet last year, each of which run from the City Centre to Mount Roskill, to Māngere, to the airport, at a cost of between $9 billion and $16b.