Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

“Non-suspicious” faulty electrics was behind a blaze that last night damaged Auckland's historic St James theatre for the second time in a decade.

Taiaroa Royal's Okareka Dance Company has been selected to perform its popular show K'Rd Strip, a mixture of dance, kapa haka and drag, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Auckland Council bureaucrats are at odds over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Point should be used for housing or a film studio campus.

Epsom MP David Seymour says the authority which is planning to ban cars from the summit of Mt Eden has no evidence to support one of its central claims.

An elderly man was left lying in a pool of his own blood for half an hour, after two ambulances called to the scene were diverted to more urgent cases.

Auckland Council's bean counters are trying to make a buck out of public lavatories.

People from outer suburbs are parking in Grey Lynn and effectively 'stealing' carparks - what are residents rights and what can they do?

Recently emerged from obscurity at 81, this millionaire textile baron remains full of surprises - and that that's just how he likes it.

Main work on the $2.5 billion city rail link is due to start in May next year, beginning with a new entrance for commuters at the rear of Britomart train station.

Eveline Harvey enjoys a babymoon break in the heart of the city.

The idea of an urban development authority, touted by experts for at least a decade, may again fall on deaf ears, writes Brian Rudman.

A security guard who collapsed and died in the cells of the Auckland District Court might have been saved if there was a defibrillator in the building, a cardiac doctor says.

Three people and a dog are believed to have escaped a fire that gutted a suburban Auckland house overnight.

An Auckland takeaway owner has been landed with a $110,000 rent hike demand.

Auckland's easternmost suburb offers the ideal family trifecta: bike trails, beaches and stunning beauty, writes Debbie Griffiths.

4 of the best learn-to-ride bike trails for kids to find their balance.

Who better to breathe new life into the abandoned Civic Administration Building than mega music store Real Groovy Records, asks Brian Rudman.

There is no sign of a new public space to replace the privatised Queen Elizabeth Square, says the Waitemata Local Board.

A natural re-usable food wrap, a brainchild of three Auckland mums, is one of the creative ideas to be presented at next Sunday's Auckland Fair.

Two people escaped without injury after a car smashed into a shop in Auckland early this morning.

A wooden rake mistakenly left in a duct contributed to a blaze that gutted the kitchen of one of Auckland's most popular eateries.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attempting to kill a man in central Auckland last week can now be named.

Auckland Transport believes parking fines are no longer effective and calls for an increase to deter offenders.

A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attempting to kill another man in central Auckland last week will lose name suppression on Thursday.

The 22-year-old man who was stabbed alongside Parmita Rani at an central Auckland international school is in a stable condition.