Auckland Region

A fire in a six-storey residential block in downtown Auckland has been extinguished.

One Auckland foodbank recently had to cap the number of people getting food parcels.

But Auckland Council said it would not prioritise golf enthusiasts over the need to protect people's lives. Audio

Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams will be allowed a helicopter pad at their Westmere home after their resource consent was approved by council-appointed commissioners. Audio

A man is charged with driving dangerously causing death, dangerous driving causing injury and driving while forbidden.

Five fire trucks attended the blaze at a multi-unit home in Wesley overnight, which put one person in hospital.

A man is in custody after a police search for a "person of interest" following the death of a man in Ōtāhuhu.

The 17-year-old has been missing since Friday.

Updates are being introduced on where and how dogs can be walked throughout the Auckland region.

The timeliness and effectiveness of warnings and the emergency response to the Auckland Anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabrielle will come under scrutiny.

Arriving passengers were temporarily held in the baggage reclaim area as a precaution.

The agency applied to have Vena Funaki evicted from the Ōtara, Auckland property after he acted aggressively when he was told to remove his dogs from the property.

A third person is also injured.

A man whose wife went missing from a rest home while in respite care for dementia last month is horrified to learn of Christchurch woman Elisabeth Nicholls' death.

Police say they were made aware of the death at about 4pm on Friday.

Two teenagers remain in critical conditions after the car they were in left the road and ploughed into property near Auckland.

The 41-year-old, who is known to frequent areas around Mount Roskill and Auckland's CBD, is continuing to evade police.

Watercare has revealed that a third of its 40,000 EDMI smart meters are faulty, saying it discovered the issue last October. Audio

The road was closed after wind blew a 25-30m section of roof off a commercial building and partially collapsed the front of the structure.

Police spotted one vehicle chasing another moments before the fatal crash.