Living the dog's life just got a whole lot cooler with a doggie playground complete with a swing bridge, see-saws and tunnels taking shape at the SPCA.

The Herald this week marks the launch of Super Diverse Woman. Today we talk to Barbara Ala'alatoa.

Emergency services closed off part of a busy road in Mangere, South Auckland, after a gas main was ruptured by a digger.

EXCLUSIVE: Water bills in the country's largest city may have to rise to stop raw sewage flowing into Auckland Harbour almost every time it rains.

An 8-year-old girl has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a car in the South Auckland.

Nearly 5000 people are now in the queue for social housing across the country.

Real estate industry watchdog investigators are looking into quick fire sales of neighbouring properties in Mangere Bridge following a Herald investigation.

A descendant of early businessman George Court who lived in a historic homestead in Mangere Bridge is "horrified" the property could be demolished.

Forget Beefsteaks and cherry tomatoes, little Otto Madsen has a tomato to trump the rest.

Crash brings down powerlines.

Valerie Adams visited her mother's grave today, after news she has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Victim's family happy police officer who pushed teen off bike will escape charges.

Jade Howard Moore, who helped a diabetic mum who collapsed earlier this year, is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.

A health expert says the woman who left a dead newborn baby in a park would be showing signs something was wrong.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Guy Fawkes weekend has officially started for South Auckland fire crews.

A grassroots community effort to clean up a polluted South Auckland waterway has been hailed with a national award naming the Puhinui Stream the country's "most improved river".

Here are extracts from the five new faces on Auckland Council.

Brazen thieves who robbed a couple as they slept began taking photos of themselves flaunting their stolen property just a few hours later.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget

A man charged in relation to the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler has lost a bid for name suppression.

High school in 2016 has become a playground for the logistical mastermind.

Serial dung-slinger was back in court today - and his defence as to why he threw manure at a judge was unique, to say the least.

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.