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.

A blaze at a restaurant in a West Auckland shopping mall has now been extinguished.

David Cunliffe arrived in politics with a CV bursting with promise but his leadership of Labour proved disastrous.

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.

As the World Class Auckland series draws to a close we take a look at a blueprint of what it would take to elevate the Super City to the top.

Nearly 2000 new homes - hundreds priced in the affordable range for first-home buyers - are set to be built in Auckland's western fringe.

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.

What a difference one debate makes. An entirely new David Cunliffe emerged on the campaign trail yesterday - one with a spring in his step and energy that was all but absent earlier.

A new apartment buyer faces the possibility of a legal row with a developer after finding window and bed space blocked by pillars she claims were not on the plans.