Police have charged a 24-year-old Glenfield mother after her young son was found wandering the street alone at 2.30am. A neighbour discovered the four year old in Bayview on July 7 and notified police. he child was crying and calling out ”Mummy”. Police went to a nearby address and found that the mother had left [...]

According to the following report in the NZ Herald Michael Dobbyn who just a week or so ago was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and home detention for grroming two young boys had one at his house just days prior to his sentencing. Police were called to the home of a former school [...]

North Shore Police are urging residents in the Northcote and Takapuna area to  keep their doors and windows locked, and not admit any stranger into their  homes, after reports in the past two days of burglaries in the Takapuna and  Northcote suburbs of the North Shore, where it appears that the same criminal  is targeting [...]

An elderly man is dead after severing a blood vessel in his leg while using a circular saw at his home at Torbay on Auckland’s North Shore yesterday afternoon. The 85-year-old man was apparently doing some home maintenance when the accident happened and ambulance officers could not save him. Police said his family was still [...]

Police investigating the death of a 43 year old woman in a suspicious house fire in the North Shore suburb of Glenfield last month, have arrested and charged a man with her murder. The body of Jacqueline BLACKBOURN was discovered inside a burning house at an address in View Road, Glenfield, on Saturday 26 June [...]

Police have recovered the body of a young Asian man on Auckland’s North Shore. It was initially thought the man had fallen down a cliff near Kauri Point, close to the Chelsea Sugar Factory, but this was not the case, Takapuna Fire Service Senior Station Officer Shaun Pilgrim said. The misunderstanding had probably been due [...]

The death of a man in a car fire in Marcel Place Glenfield has been referred to the Coroner. Police sources said that the post mortem had revealed that their were no suspicious circumstances into the death following a car fire in the garage of the house early on Saturday morning. Neighbours had been woken [...]

At about 10.15am on Sunday 4 July 2010 a Holden car collided with a Nissan  car on SH1 350 metres north of Mangapai Rd, Oakleigh, near Whangärei. The 28 year old male driver of the Holden car died at the crash scene. His 26 year old male passenger is in Whangärei Hospital with serious injuries. [...]

Police and Emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious motor vehicle accident on State Highway 1, Oakleigh. The collision occurred at approximatley 10.20am and involved 2 vehicles travelling just north of Mangapai Road. Both north and southbound lanes are currently blocked and the following diversions have been put in place. Northbound traffic [...]

A death in a vehicle fire on Auckland’s North Shore this morning is being treated as suspicious. Emergency services were called to a house in Marcel Place, Glenfield, about 1.30am after a vehicle was found on fire in a garage by neighbours. Takapuna Fire Service senior station officer Shaun Pilgrim said a body was found [...]