Police investigate a fatal house fire in Mt Roskill.

NZ First joins the Green Party and Act in not running a candidate in the upcoming Mt Roskill byelection.

On the eve of the annual Labour party conference, Claire Trevett looks at the party's battle plan to to take back Auckland in 2017.

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.

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.

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

Two men arrested after alert neighbour sees "dodgy-looking" men high-jumping her neighbour's fence.

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.

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

A student has been rushed to hospital after turning up sick to an Auckland school this morning.

Police have named the man who was found dead in his Mt Roskill flat yesterday morning.

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.