Auckland Region

A truck on fire on the Southern Motorway near Bombay in Auckland caused a major traffic jam this afternoon.

Increasing numbers of professionals, working families and older people are being shut out of the Auckland housing market, a new report says.

A man convicted of raping a woman in an Auckland motel has lashed out at the judge who found him guilty.

Auckland's DHBs have acknowledged hotels are not ideal healthcare venues in a report into how a nurse caught Covid at the city's quarantine facility.

A man accused of murdering his ex-wife with a hunting knife in broad daylight on a suburban West Auckland street says he never thought about hurting her, or using a knife to stab her.

The Grey Lynn Park no-mow pilot was running for about three months before more than half of the area was mown down by mistake.

Drivers of some types of vehicles may not be able to cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge tomorrow, because of strong winds.

Police have arrested nine people and seized assets worth more than $6 million in a raid today targeting money laundering in Auckland.

It follows acrimonious debate between Team New Zealand and challenger Luna Rossa, who copped the blame for a decision that effectively scrapped using the inner Waitemata Harbour.

Police have have launched a homicide investigation after the discovery of a body in a vehicle in Manurewa.

All people involved in three west Auckland schools being locked down earlier this afternoon have been located and are safe.

Police are stepping up their presence in a west Auckland suburb as they investigate two recent firearms incidents.

A mother and daughter who were 'not properly clothed' were among a family held too long and detained unlawfully by police, the IPCA has found.

A woman who says she was raped by a man in an Auckland motel has been accused of fabricating her story.

A section of Auckland CBD has been cordoned off after a sudden death.

A top Auckland doctor was warning the government in January that people were at "serious risk" because the city's public health service was at risk of failing, even as Covid-19 was knocking at the…

Two men have been charged with murder in relation to the death of a man at an Auckland park earlier this month.