Protesters have started building a concrete-block "whare" in the middle of a disputed site near Auckland Airport where the Fletcher

At least one student involved in last week's mass brawl at an Auckland KFC has been kicked out of school, while others have been stood down.

Two teens have been charged and two more referred to Youth Aid following a street brawl that spilled into a South Auckland KFC restaurant.

Up to 100 students involved in a brawl that spilled from an Auckland street into a KFC restaurant.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

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.

One of the biggest traditional Samoan houses to be built outside of the islands will be officially opened in South Auckland today.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old in her Mangere home.

A former market garden with a 1920s brick and tile home in Mangere sold at auction this week for $4.7 million - almost $3.5m over its council valuation.

A humble 80sq m cottage has sold for $1.72 million - more than $700,000 over its current council valuation.

The plight of an 11-year-old girl at Te Puea Marae with a love for reading has prompted a donation of more than 200 books.

A "high risk" sex offender housed metres from a Auckland school has been moved after a public outcry - near another school.

A 26-year-old man is due to appear in court this afternoon after a two-year-old girl was shot dead.

A Mangere marae has planted 80,000 kumara to try to wean its people off McDonald's and KFC.

A heroic Mangere East woman who saved her three young nieces from a fire yesterday slept in the garage last night, after the blaze gutted their home.

A house in South Auckland has been extensively damaged after an early morning blaze on Christmas Eve.

Police are investigating a suspected air gun incident in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere this morning.

Two masked offenders who stormed a petrol station and fired blank shots into the roof have sparked a police hunt.

Six people involved in the rescue of children from a capsized dinghy that claimed the lives of two people have been recognised for their bravery.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere. Four occupants have been transferred to Middlemore hospital with moderate to serious injuries. An investigation by Serious Crash in underway to find out the cause of the accident.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere.

New Zealand’s largest Islamic school moves to protect young from extremism amid concerns over how terror groups are using the internet to recruit members.

Auckland housewives have been targeted by a malicious letter-writer who has posted letters accusing them of having affairs.

Diabetes patient Rosilene Thomas has lost confidence in using a kidney dialysis machine after her home was one of about 300 Mangere properties to lose its water supply.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

'This little truck takes two carpark spaces 10 hours a week and we disturb nobody.' Fish vendors vow to fight a Council order to move.

Outlying suburbs are the setting for Auckland's next property boom, as first-home buyers squeezed out of rapidly rising areas look to the outskirts of the City of Sails.

Police have arrested two men and are searching for a third after an attempted carjacking in Mangere Bridge this afternoon.