Deborah Russell has been announced as the Labour Party's candidate to contest the New Lynn electorate in the general election.

Police have released footage of a mystery man who may have valuable information into the death of an Auckland teen skateboarder.

Fire races through a New Lynn boarding house.

Friends and family of hit-and-run victim Jacob Pakura have gathered to farewell him for the last time at a service in West Auckland this afternoon.

Auckland barrister and Green Party candidate Golriz Ghahraman is hoping to be the first refugee to become an MP in New Zealand.

Police broaden the hunt for a car that killed teenage skateboarder Jacob Pakura.

The mother of a teenager who died in a hit-and-run cried as she asked the driver why the vehicle didn't stop for her "baby".

Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

A baby has been injured in a large house fire in West Auckland this morning.

Former Labour Leader David Cunliffe is leaving Parliament.

Firefighters were called out to an Auckland house this morning after a child got its head stuck in a deck.

Loved ones of a Kiwi woman have been left with a six-figure medical bill after she suffered a heart attack on a flight and had to stop in Honolulu for emergency treatment.

Emergency services were busy in Auckland on Thursday night after a three car collision in Epsom and another car crashing through eight fences in New Lynn.

A motorist fleeing police caused a pile-up before abandoning the vehicle and trying to escape on foot today.

An older-style and largely original three-bedroom bungalow overlooking the Titirangi Golf Course has sold under the hammer for $2 million.

Three protesters have climbed a stand of pohutukawa trees being cut down today for a housing development in New Lynn.

New Lynn's new eight-screen multiplex cinema complex is the first Reading complex to open in Auckland.

A four-storey-high movie screen and 740-seat restaurant precinct been revealed after the first peek into Auckland's biggest mall makeover of the year.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES. Woman rescues skin and bones dog that was hidden in bush area.

Police say a pupil believed snatched from outside an Auckland school last week was not at the centre of an abduction but travelling home with his father.

A West Auckland school community has been put on alert after a child was taken in a stranger's car this week.

A group of friends helped rescue a woman attacked at some Auckland traffic lights: "I managed to kick his legs out from under him and the rest of the boys piled on top."

A wanted offender has taken police on a dramatic chase through an Auckland suburb this afternoon.

An Auckland property developer parked his late-model Lamborghini in a mobility parking space without a permit.

'Oh my God, it's a cock and balls.' A $200,000 public sculpture being installed in Auckland is causing a stir with locals, who say it resembles a penis.

Work started this week on the $36 million expansion of New Zealand's first shopping mall.

Readers from New Lynn will, I hope, forgive me if I suggest that the suburb, the least westernmost part of what used to be called Waitakere City and will always be called West Auckland, is not really a dining destination.