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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four people have been sentenced to life in prison for beating a man to death after a birthday party.

Children watched as an out-of-work social worker threw his flatmate's cat under the tyres of passing cars to kill it.