Wynyard Quarter and a wharf extension to Halsey St are shaping up as the preferred waterfront locations should the America's Cup come back to New Zealand.

Metropolis apartment owners were at one another's throats on the eve of today's crucial meeting to decide the central Auckland tower's fate.

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.

A man shot in the leg and then abandoned in a car in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes this morning is believed to know his shooter, police say.

Dionne Christian explores a refuge for endangered wildlife.

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.

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.

I've lived in this city for 36 years and for the last 20 the quality of life has ebbed through traffic conditions no one should have to put up with, writes John Minto.

Fresh ingredients and pure flavours speak for themselves at this trendy establishment.

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