A shopkeeper was hit on the head with a hammer and had her wrists and ankles bound with lavalavas before a teenager stole money from her till.

The partner of a builder killed while inspecting wiring under his house says he told her minutes before his death that he did not plan on touching anything.

A dispute over a cat led to a lockdown at Avondale College after it was alleged that one person involved threatened to use a firearm.

Some of my first "dining out" experiences involved a group of us, in our teens, going to Chinese restaurants where we enjoyed the novelty of a non-European cuisine.

Ben of Avondale would love to book Mondo's three-night Athens city break, which appears to also take in the Colosseum in Rome.

The man whose body was found in a carpark next to a suburban Auckland police station died of natural causes, police say.