Blair Cole even displayed the Licensed Building Practitioner logo on his business card, despite not being licensed.

The crash happened in Albany on Auckland's North Shore at 1.30am this morning.

Ethnic restaurants in Auckland are taking the cooking from the kitchen to the dining table.

Shopping centres were packed with shoppers today as the scramble to buy last-minute Christmas presents intensifies.

People using Park and Ride have been pinged for more than $1 million in fines in the past five years.

Albany ward, like much of Auckland, is growing. But that change comes with worries.

Advertisements are being placed at supermarkets by people wanting to live in cars seeking "driveway and shower" arrangements.

Police have arrested a man on the run for two weeks after an alleged family violence incident on the North Shore where a woman was seriously assaulted.

The patient is said to have suffered moderate injuries.

A construction worker seeking cover in a portacom during an Auckland tornado died when the wind funnel hurled the structure through the air, a coroner has found.

Exclusive: Massey health and safety investigation at Albany campus reveals chemical incident just days earlier, reports Anna Leask.

"She’s mistaken the stairs for the entrance. She was a bit shocked but then she just went shopping."

Shops and entertainment are a stroll from this quality 800-apartment development, finds Sandra Goodwin

Watercare is pumping water from tankers into water pipes for almost 600 elderly people in two retirement villages and a hospital affected by a general water outage in the Albany area.

Watercare says water will not be fully restored in Albany until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

A burst water main has left a number of homes and businesses, including the Westfield Mall in Albany, without water on Auckland's North Shore this evening.

The people of Albany, a suburb of Auckland's North Shore given over largely to big box retailers and franchise universities, was surprised on Saturday night when a Super Rugby match broke out at North Harbour Stadium.

North Harbour Stadium will host the final of football's under-20 World Cup on Saturday, June 20 in 2015.

A fire at a childcare centre on Auckland's North Shore early this morning is being treated as suspicious.

A man believed to be behind a sophisticated cannabis-growing operation was oblivious to a police raid at his warehouse - until he walked right into it.

Police have uncovered a major cannabis cultivating operation in an Auckland industrial area and say the plants could have fetched up to $1 million.

Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.