Auckland Region

Ports of Auckland (POAL) will pay a smaller dividend to Auckland Council following a tough year that included a work place death and various pandemic-related disruptutions.

Stocks of the most common house insulation product, Pink Batts, have been exhausted outside of Auckland.

Police are using DNA testing to identify the mother of a baby whose body was found at an Auckland recycling facility.

More details around a man's escape from MIQ have been released as authorities scramble to investigate the man - who was Covid-19 positive in the community for about 12 hours before being captured Audio

The man who fled a quarantine hotel in Auckland early this morning left his room three times before finally making his escape.

"The next week is going to be pretty tough," church spokesperson Jerome Mika says of the largest cluster in the latest Covid-19 community outbreak.

Emeritus professor of medicine Des Gorman says the approach to Auckland's borders needs to be tougher and we need to have tough conversations about what that might mean. Audio

All three of Auckland's main hospitals are building more negative pressure rooms to keep up with the Delta strain of Covid-19.

Ruined cars, broken belongings and ripped up gardens have emerged from floodwaters in West Auckland after Monday night's deluge.

Two people have died and another person is in critical condition in hospital after a car crash in Henderson.

Auckland businesses are calling out for more financial support from the government as they face an extended stint in lockdown.

People scrambled to save what they could as "massive amounts" of floodwater hit parts of West Auckland, with 200mm of rain in Kumeū overnight.

A man who displayed erratic behaviour following his arrest in Auckland has ended up in hospital, police say.

Aucklanders have rallied in lockdown answering a social media call for clothes and shoes for Afghan refugees. Audio

Auckland Council was expected to receive a review into contamination near the Harbour Bridge today.

Emergency services were called just after 10am on Monday to a section near the Tauhinu Road off ramp in Greenhithe.

The teams working on two of Auckland's biggest infrastructure projects have had to adapt to some major challenges as a result of the latest alert level 4 lockdown.

A dedicated Covid-19 testing station for the largest sub-cluster of this outbreak opened today in Auckland.