A West Auckland catholic girls' college is banning dresses with plunging necklines, low backs and leg splits above the knee from its upcoming school ball.

A truck has crashed into the living room of a home in Henderson, in West Auckland.

It might not be the easiest thing to steal - but someone has succeeded in nicking off with a 1.8 tonne digger, and its trailer, from a Henderson home.

The man who ate Lincoln Rd rates a strange offering from BK, and pits the burger chain against McDonald's.

OPINION: Eves Pantry feels like a little bit of Epsom has come to Lincoln Rd, writes Steve Braunias.

Steve Braunias has eaten a lot of doughnuts in his time. So how does he rate the offerings on Lincoln Rd?

The man who ate Lincoln Rd is going to come right out and say Nando's Chicken is the best chicken there is.

Steve Braunias - the man who ate Lincoln Rd - tries a slice of Sal's pizza.

With some help from two 'Westie chicks'.

The results of a post-mortem examination have failed to shed light on what caused the death of an Auckland teenager yesterday.

The school under fire for bribing its kids with takeaways says it never served fried chicken - only pizza.

Others stood by while a young woman was being strangled and punched in her car, but five Auckland men took action.

"Love Hendo" is the theme of two murals being unveiled today on the walls of the Waitakere Community Resource Centre in Henderson.

Six fire trucks were called to the scene of the fire on Hickory Avenue in Henderson at 2.12pm, northern fire communications shift manager Scott Osmond said.

A large fire in a mechanical workshop in Henderson has been contained.

Police say it's a miracle nobody was killed when a man "driving like an idiot with a death wish" sped the wrong way down a motorway last night.

Peter Calder revisits the chunk of Auckland's west where immigrant families from Croatia settled to grow fruit - and make wine - for the expanding city.

A staff member is being supported by colleagues after a brazen gunpoint hold-up of The Warehouse in Henderson in the early hours of this morning.

Rob Ashton, soon to join Auckland's Carlton-Cornwall club after dominating Wellington bowls for years, moved to the brink of an unprecedented double at the New Zealand Open at Henderson yesterday.

A woman at a hot rod show at a Henderson bar was badly hurt when an unoccupied car's handbrake came undone and the vehicle rolled into her leg.

An Auckland man posed as a mall security guard, forcing a teenage girl into a changing room and molested her as she wept.

Rugby nobility turned out in Henderson yesterday to farewell a renowned hard-man of the sport, 1950s All Black Kevin Skinner, who died last weekend aged 86.

The "shell-shocked'' mother of a security guard killed on the first day on the job feels betrayed by the justice system after the man accused of murdering him was acquitted today.

A young security guard, killed on his first night on the job, was filling in for a permanent staff member who had requested the night off for his birthday, a court has heard.

A fire that forced a family of eight to flee their west Auckland home early today was deliberately lit, police say.

The man accused of killing security guard Charanpreet Dhaliwal will go to trial to defend the charge of murder.