Auckland Transport is axing some school buses and telling children to catch public buses.

Now's the time to buy if you're looking for your first home: mortgage broker.

Readers ask why they can mow their lawns, yet contractors can't mow parks

Motorists are flooding the Herald with complaints against the proposed petrol tax.

SPCA are appealing to the public after a tiny dog was found wearing a heartbreaking note.

Mothers to great-grandmothers run volunteer sewing 'factory' making clothes for charity.

Most new Auckland teachers plan to leave town, and many are deferring having children.

Some Kiwis in Australia are advising New Zealanders not to cross the ditch.

An average Auckland family says the Budget's tax tweaks do nothing to help them get ahead.

The fallout from a long running spat between neighbours over a washing line has continued.

Washing line dispute "opened a can of worms" that could affect others, politician says

A washing line on publicly-owned land has sparked a dispute between two neighbours.

Crimson Education says 64 young New Zealanders have been offered study sponsorship.

Construction workers are abusing people who complain about late-night or early-morning noise, say locals.

Lucy Schwaner earned $1600 despite quitting within minutes of being sworn in as a member of the Howick local board.

An Auckland Council by-election is set to cost ratepayers more than $100,000 after a local board member resigned at the board's first meeting.

Lucy Schwaner, who dramatically quit the Howick Local Board last night, says her ability to chair the board with young children was dragged into question.

Is this the shortest term in office ever? Lucy Schwaner was sworn in, then walked out less than half an hour later

New Zealanders will light up the darkness on 17 mountaintops next month as a message of hope for families struggling to cope with suicides by loved ones.

After a wave tipped them into the water, a boatie came to the rescue.

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.

An East Auckland father of three killed in a hit-and-run in a carpark outside a karaoke bar was out celebrating his wife’s birthday.

The 41-year-old man who died after being hit by a vehicle outside an east Auckland Karaoke bar on Saturday has been named by police.

A man was killed after a karaoke bar argument over a woman turned vicious in the early hours of yesterday.

A terrified bank worker allegedly had a machete held to the throat during an armed hold-up this week.

When Gaylene Mackereth left her home in Howick on a trip to the beach with her granddaughter recently, she paid a bit more attention than usual to the houses they passed.

A developer has paid $2.41 million for a five-bedroom family home in Epsom, with plans to knock it down and build two new townhouses.

Alan la Roche is a lifelong resident of Howick, and a founding member of the Howick Historical Village. He tells Elisabeth Easther why he loves his suburb.