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.

Police are on the hunt for two men who held up a Mangere service station last night, armed with a gun.

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.

A local board has had to go it alone in appealing against a proposed new liquor store opposite a Mangere school, after the Auckland Council refused to back the appeal.

Fire appliances have rushed to a house fire in Mangere.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

The country's refugee-processing centre is being overhauled - with the capacity to house a huge and sudden intake if necessary.

With over 10 volcanic craters and cones, Mangere is packed with adventures, writes Diana Clement.

Twenty-two families who have mostly been doubling up with relatives in overcrowded homes finally have room to breathe in a new housing project opened by a Tongan princess in Mangere.

A man is set to appear in court today charged with assaulting police, following an incident where police fired a shot while trying to make an arrest in South Auckland last night.

Danielle Wright finds a busy kids' book club in Mangere Bridge that's about a lot more than reading and writing.