Auckland Region

Auckland Council's cultural and economic development agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited says it is short of nearly $20 million to attract visitors to the city.

Te Whatu Ora (Counties Manukau) is conducting an investigation into an alleged assault of a patient by staff at unit of Middlemore Hospital.

Analysis - It seems like we have heard a lot from new Auckland mayor Wayne Brown. But we haven't. The weekday statements and the release of table-thumping letters are mostly the work of his closest…

A woman has been seriously injured after slipping from the bonnet of a moving car while celebrating in Māngere in the early hours.

Police say one person is still missing after a boat carrying five people capsized in Auckland's Manukau Harbour on Sunday evening.

Auckland Council will allow a huge development in Drury to go ahead, as long as work is done in stages.

The principal of a south Auckland school has confirmed one of their pupils is the person missing after a boating tragedy on Manukau Harbour.

The wife and children of a migrant killed at work last week were soon to arrive from the Philippines.

The search for a person missing from a capsized boat off Clarks Beach is continuing with the police Eagle helicopter scouring the area.

Auckland Council says it is experiencing increased financial pressure from rises in inflation and interest rates.

Mental health patients are sometimes stranded for days in North Shore Hospital's emergency department waiting for a bed on a ward.

One person has died and one person is missing following a boat capsize near Clarks Beach.

A large scale search is underway in the Firth of Thames, after a kayaker did not return home last night.

The Labour leader is urging party faithful to use its annual conference to "refresh and rejuvenate" ahead of next year's election.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has found some nice things to say about the council agencies he attacked throughout his election campaign - and since - following his first face-to-face encounter with their…

Watercare has shut down an Auckland treatment plant after finding a contaminant above drinking water threshold levels.

Two new Sumatran tigers, with the goal of breeding, will soon call Auckland Zoo home.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is calling on transport agencies and the government to move to an "emergency footing" to maintain public transport services.

Boaties are being told to modify their behaviour near Aotea/ Great Barrier Island as part of ongoing efforts to contain an invasive seaweed.