Auckland Region

Auckland's Mount Albert community is shocked and saddened by the death of Lena Zhang Harrap near Ōwairaka Domain.

An overnight and morning downpour today lifted the city's dams to 82 percent of capacity, after consistent rain through winter and spring.

The 27-year-old woman with Down Syndrome who was found dead in Mt Albert yesterday was the victim of foul play, and police are seeking a man seen on CCTV footage at the scene.

A dairy that opened in Auckland during World War I and survived through the Spanish Flu pandemic is within an inch of its life after the latest lockdown.

Some Auckland parents are frustrated the Ministry of Health will not let their children return to boarding schools in other regions.

The city is already at 80 percent but those on the ground say the next 10 percent will be more challenging and will take some creative thinking.

Police have confirmed they have found a body while searching for Auckland woman Lena Harrap, who went missing from her Mt Albert home this morning.

A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a 72-year-old man in the Auckland suburb of Favona yesterday evening.

Three people have been arrested in Auckland over several burglaries at post shops and building sites during the level 4 lockdown.

Claims of lockdown breaches are emerging from locals in the small south Auckland suburb of interest, Clover Park.

There were smiles all round in Manurewa this week as a new addition to the vaccination program was unveiled - a mobile vaccination bus cheerfully named Shot Cuz.

Auckland restaurants have been scrubbing down and stocking up as they get ready to reopen for business.

The chief executive of one of the country's long-standing commercial construction firms is delighted staff and sub-contractors can return to the city's building sites today.

There has been a 49 percent increase in injuries recorded as a result of firearms crime in Auckland city over the past year and a half, compared with the two years previous.

Auckland school principals are expecting only small numbers of children will return to school when the city shifts to alert level 3.

A prisoner who tested positive for Covid-19 was likely infected by someone who transported him to an address in the Waikato, the Director-General of Health says.

Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Tuesday night, and stay in level 3 for at least two weeks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

Police have arrested two gang associates they say were trying to get past Auckland's border on a back road, with a large quantity of cash and KFC.