Jacinda Ardern is thinking of standing in Mt Albert as MP David Shearer looks set to quit Parliament.

Labour leader Andrew Little hopes to avoid a byelection, and to have an early general election instead, following David Shearer's resignation.

Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.

The tihi (summits) of five Auckland mountains will be closed to vehicles from next year, the Tupuna Maunga Authority has announced.

The father of a man stabbed to death by his neighbour says he has lost his "baby boy" - and that the man responsible "got away" with the killing.

A jury has found Dustin La Mont not guilty of murder and wounding a man after he stabbed two men from a neighbour's noisy party.

Accused says he wishes he had run away prior to allegedly stabbing two men, killing one.

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The man who survived being stabbed by Dustin La Mont says he felt his friend die, a court has heard.

The new development will focus on affordable housing says Nick Smith.

In creating his false alibi, Dustin La Mont told his girlfriend he was self-harming in the shed at the time Nathan Pukeroa was stabbed to death, the Crown alleges.

The cost of housing in Auckland is pushing staff in industries to leave the city, while Auckland businesses must be prepared to pay more to keep staff.

A top Auckland school is losing three science teachers as houses become an "unrealistic" goal for many in the profession.

Teens unaware that Auckland's volcanic domes are protected heritage sites are carving ugly bike tracks into their sides.

Police are searching for the owners of a car who were nearly hit by a fleeing motorcyclist minutes before he died in central Auckland.

A motorcyclist has died trying to flee from the police in a chase in Auckland this morning.

An Auckland man has been found guilty of setting his dogs on a man employed by Housing New Zealand to test properties property for

Improvements to public transport are top of the agenda in Albert-Eden-Roskill.

A four square metre sink hole, described as being "very deep" has appeared in Mt Albert.

A shoe-thieving cat burglar has been outed in an Auckland suburb.

An Auckland man has been arrested in relation to an incident where another man was shot with a nail gun.

While most teenage boys can be found covered in bed covers and snoozing away on a Sunday morning, Anshule Takyar spends his teaching meditation to kids.

A 72-year-old woman is in a serious condition in hospital after a car crashed into a pole in Auckland.

Police investigating the fatal stabbing of Nathan Pukeroa in Mt Albert last Thursday have searched a house near the scene of the attack.

Police are yet to find the weapon that was used in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Nathan Pukeroa in Mt Albert last week.

Fight back against plan to turn campus into suburban real estate.

Mt Albert residents are questioning the speed of Housing New Zealand's plans for its Asquith Ave site.

Police have now stepped in to investigate allegations a student hacked into an Auckland school's database and sent pornographic images to all its pupils.

A large residential site in the heart of Mt Albert could easily contain 15 or 16 well-designed town houses and units instead of three large houses: expert.