Concerns have been raised for an Auckland teenager who has been missing for a month.

The dejected crowd at Shed 10 graciously clapped Oracle Team USA over the finish line at the end of Race 14 of the America's Cup, followed seconds later by huge cheers for Emirates Team New Zealand.

Fans gathering at Shed 10 on Auckland's waterfront are settling in for a wait as bad weather delays the start of America's Cup racing.

The liquid is spilling from a large container at the police weighbridge station on Churchill St at the bottom of Constitution Hill.

Farm paddocks are not there to sprout houses, Franklin Local Board chairman Andy Baker told a meeting to wrap up the new planning rulebook for the city this morning.

A new heritage rule that controls the demolition of pre-1944 houses has got the nod from the Auckland Council.

Ima’s homespun ambience offers a relaxed, cheerful evening among friends.

A man who shook, smothered and repeatedly punched a 5-month-old baby has been sentenced to just over three years in prison.

Fire investigators are trying to establish the cause of a large blaze at an Auckland factory last night.

Once it was just Everybody's. Now it's Everybody's Izakaya, part of the rebranding at the Imperial Lane complex that has seen Roxy's disappear as a restaurant and a radical change of direction in the food at the more casual eatery.

The Auckland Council is today voting on a bylaw which could see beggars, illegal windscreen washers and buskers banned from the streets.

One man was taken to hospital overnight after a car, which was believed to be stolen, crashed into a power pole in Auckland.

A police inquiry has been upgraded to a homicide investigation after a homeless man brutally assaulted in central Auckland on Wednesday died in hospital.

Police and fire inspectors are investigating a suspicious primary school fire in Auckland today.

A 17-year-old youth will appear in Auckland District Court tomorrow morning charged with the brutal assault of a homeless man in the city's CBD on Wednesday.

A building caretaker has spoken of the horror of finding a homeless man fighting for his life in an Auckland alleyway after a brutal assault.

A year after Auckland Mayor Len Brown promised to crack down on central city alcohol issues, booze-related assaults are "bog standard".

Several youths were arrested after a drunken brawl erupted in central Auckland overnight. Three people remain in Auckland Hospital with minor injuries.

Under-estimating the dining treasure in Auckland’s suburbs can be a huge gaffe, as we discovered.

Traffic is backed up on Auckland's Harbour Bridge following a four-car crash this morning.

The $33.4 million cost of a building to bring theatre and dance to the Auckland waterfront is almost covered by fundraisers - lifting hopes for a start to construction early next year.

Engineers are trying to establish why one of the cables that raises Te Wero Bridge at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour snapped yesterday.