Armed police descended on an East Auckland suburb this morning.

Police are still puzzled by an alleged kidnapping from Sylvia Park in September.

Police in Auckland are hunting a man for breaching prison release conditions.

Glen Innes art gallery director Gary Silipa led a double life as a computer network engineer during the day and illegal graffiti artist at night until his addictions got the better of him.

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

A man with Parkinson's disease who went missing in the Glenn Innes area has been found and is safe.

Goodman (NZ) Limited, the manager of Goodman Property Trust, has announced the purchase of a huge 5.8 hectare industrial site at 127-131 Pilkington Rd in Glen Innes for $30.3 million.

Serious weathertightness issues have been found at the popular Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Orakei and repairs to the buildings will cost $12 million and take five years to fix.

An Auckland school has had to warn its students about rodents in the area after a teenager was bitten when she picked up a dying rat.

The Government is handing over the ownership of about 2800 Tamaki state homes to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company in a move Labour are calling "reckless".

Auckland councillor Dick Quax has been causing a stir online with flippant comments about public transport and the regular presence of police in an Auckland suburb.

Riandri De Bruyn will never forget the night of the crash. She and her friends were at a party in Auckland's Glen Innes, at the home of a friend of Riandri's older brother, Chris.

Having grown up in Christchurch and attended a largely Pakeha high school, Leonie Wethey finds she learns as much from the predominantly Pasifika students at Tamaki College as they learn from her.

A 59-year-old beneficiary with heart problems has become the first Glen Innes tenant to vow to fight an eviction notice as a new mixed housing development gathers pace.

When dental hygienist Cynthia Wallbridge read in the Herald that 40 per cent of New Zealand 5-year-olds have tooth decay, she was dismayed.

The house on the corner site in Taniwha St, Glen Innes, is a case study of everything Housing NZ says is wrong with its state housing stock.

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.

Video footage of chaotic scenes at an Auckland housing protest in which Mana Party leader Hone Harawira was arrested last year has been played to a court.

Two-storey townhouses and stand-alone houses expected to sell from $400,000 to $700,000 have been unveiled in the first stage of redeveloping 156 Housing NZ sites in Glen Innes.

Tamati Patuwai (Ngati Whatua) tells Elisabeth Easther what he loves about living in Glen Innes, and how much the area has changed since he was a boy

Editorial: It is hardly surprisingly that many state-house tenants in Glen Innes are angry about being asked to leave homes they have inhabited for years.

Relationship with Auckland council on right path as mayor deals with old political divide