National's Parmjeet Parmar has questioned 'independent' mayor Phil Goff's role in Labour candidate's campaign.

National's Steven Joyce was criticised for 'pork barrel politics' during the Northland by-election. Now he's hitting out at Labour for the same over its $680m Mt Roskill light rail pledge.

COMMENT: If Labour wins the the byelection no one will notice. There will not be a ripple. If they lose, there will be a political tsunami.

Sitting list MP Parmjeet Parmar will contest the Mt Roskill byelection for National, the party has confirmed.

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

The Mt Roskill byelection is likely to be held on December 3, with the National Party happy to wear the underdog tag.

A brazen garden thief is wreaking havoc on backyards in a central Auckland suburb.

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

Mayoral contenders Phil Goff and Vic Crone both say they will tap private investors to pay for an Auckland light rail system if central government fails to fund it.

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

A bankrupt Mt Roskill man has been accused of concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold bars and cash from authorities.

A man who served 15 years in an Australian prison for beating his pregnant girlfriend to death took just six months to reoffend after being deported to New Zealand.

Desperate bid to find her daughter's gold signet ring attached to "Happy Birthday" balloon.

Woman who helped kill a man after her birthday party has had her murder appeal dismissed.

The Labour Party has selected Michael Wood as its new Mt Roskill candidate to take over from longstanding MP Phil Goff.

Healthy scroggin and fruit pottles are replacing chips as lunch for some Mt Roskill schoolchildren.

A stolen car crammed full with seven young people flipped in a driveway after a high-speed police chase.

Three cars involved in collision which killed one person and injured another.

Residents of a street in Mt Roskill say they are shocked after learning a man's body was found in a nearby flat.

A cross on the summit of Auckland's Mt Roskill was removed this week.

Man praised by police for helping stop an attack on a woman who was being punched through the driver's window of a car.

Police chasing a violent offender in Auckland were helped out by a bystander who tackled the man, bringing him down and allowing police to handcuff him.

Staff at a Mt Roskill liquor outlet were threatened with a long-barrelled black handgun during a robbery last night.

When Cecil Lochan settled in Mt Roskill in the mid-1970s, the Fijian-Indian was the first non-European in the street. His neighbour wasn't happy.

Whichever side prevails in the World Cup Football semifinal in Brazil this morning, there will be some weeping and wailing in the First XI football team at Mt Roskill Grammar School.

Snobbery and a false rumour that a boundary change would take some homes out of the Auckland Grammar zone and affect property values are believed to be factors in the strong opposition.

NZ is a multicultural society with a special position afforded to the tangata whenua. The residents of Mt Roskill, home to more than 54 nationalities, know this, writes Paul Little.

A large mixed-use zoned site with redevelopment potential on a high-profile corner site on Dominion Rd, Mt Roskill, will go under the hammer in early March.

A police officer has been accused of hiding behind a pole to catch drivers who travelled just over the speed limit in an Auckland street over Labour Weekend.