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.

School zones are being rewritten to cope with bulging rolls at 43 Auckland schools.

The former agents have been suspended for eight months, fined $1500 and censured.

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

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

A car that drove off a parking building was believed to be caused by an elderly person having a "medical event".

People in Howick are keeping demands for Council simple: protect their ward's "special character" while ensuring trips to the city are less of an ordeal.

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.

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.

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

A restaurant with a Mediterranean twist should become a local haunt.

Culture, history, good cuisine, galleries - Howick village has a lot to keep day visitors entertained.