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.

An 18-month old has died after being run over by a vehicle in an Auckland driveway.

While Auckland councillors struggle to come up with a polite way of moving beggars off downtown pavements, the much larger problem of drunken youths staggering about the bottom of town remains firmly parked in the too-hard basket.

Rodney Hide is immensely pleased the new Auckland Council and the Government have agreed on a multibillion-dollar way forward for Auckland transport.

It's time to ditch the reckless timetable, put back the notification date, and give council officers a chance to look at the feedback properly, writes Sally Hughes.

Danielle Wright takes a look underneath the sea at the Auckland War Memorial Museum's Moana - My Ocean exhibition.

It's not just beggars who are coming in for attention - the Auckland Council is also considering changes to the rules around charity collectors, who approach people on city streets asking for donations.

Children from a small school north of Auckland were the first to break the ice at Aotea Square's annual winter wonderland celebrations.

Prime Minister John Key has confirmed that Government will back a city rail loop in Auckland, but will delay the start of construction by five years.

By the time she was 5 months old, baby Jhia Rolleston had been punched, thrown and shaken by her mother's partner.

An arrest has been made, but police say the elderly in Auckland still need to be vigilant about their personal security after a series of home invasions.

At 3pm every weekday it’s a circus outside most primary schools in the country as parents vie for a parking space so they can collect their children.

Auckland motorists are being asked to avoid Ponsonby Road while emergency services mop up an oil spill.

A crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway has killed a man and caused chaos for commuters.

My happy place is seeing the Matariki constellation rise for the first time in the Maori New Year.

John Constable, of Constable Hurst Architects on collaborating with the Kingsland Business Society on a video about running a business in the area. He has created a hub for creative businesses at his building, 6 Kingsland Tce.

Animals are blessed at the annual SPCA Auckland Blessing of the Animals, held at St Matthew-In-The-City, Auckland

The Kingsland Business Community commissioned a film to help promote the inner Auckland area as a place to work and run a business.

It's a $15 million renovation, an award-winning heritage vision and a blueprint for urban renewal in downtown Auckland. And judging from the all-day crowds, it's still the place to be seen drinking coffee.

A young man who helped his friend spray-paint swastikas on Jewish graves at an Auckland cemetery has been told he is "staring down a sentence of imprisonment".

A man accused of spraying swastikas on Jewish graves said he was drunk when he and a friend decided to go out tagging and he is not anti-Semitic, a court has heard.