A 29-year-old mother faces a murder charge for leaving her 13-month-old baby in a bath.

An Auckland mother is planning to uproot her two children and leave her family home after being burgled seven times in just over a year.

Potters Hugh and Jacqueline Roscoe were among the queues of people collecting bags of free clay dug from the New Lynn Rail trench.

NZ Bus makes an amended offer to drivers, averting tomorrow's industrial action.

Bus lanes will still be a no-go area for cars tomorrow, despite up to 70 per cent of Auckland's buses being off the road.