Police said the arrest took place without incident.

A small blaze broke out at a New Lynn property this afternoon.

The 10m x 10m house has been engulfed in flame.

A stray cockerel is tormenting a west Auckland community in the wee hours of the morning.

A Long Bay boy was 'sad and disappointed' at the Boxing Day mess left in the regional park

New book plots history of 10 Great War memorials and their soldiers.

A car and motorbike collided in New Lynn.

New Lynn man asked to cough up $200 in cash on the spot.

The crash scene where a truck hit a rail over bridge this morning is now fully clear.

The mum was cheering her son's try when the opposition players reportedly lost it.

Her car was destroyed in a night - after she flipped burgers for six months to pay for it.

Four months after extreme flooding, businesses are still struggling to survive.

Three men armed with a gun robbed the Rimu St Superette.

The man is thought to have died of a heart attack while at the Candy Club brothel.

A car engulfed in flames is threatening a building at a New Lynn sports club.

Government has revealed which Auckland suburbs will get more houses before 2020.

The thriller Mo and Jess kill Susie to be performed in te reo Maori for the first time.

New Lynn's Fruitvale School will get a new $9.5 million classroom block.

The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.

Twenty-four hours after Auckland’s massive downpour, the floodwaters continue to cause heartbreak and misery.

Flooding reached worrying heights in Gurvinder Singh's small apartment.

Nine businesses in New Lynn are closed today because of the flooding.

A section of a main New Lynn street remains cordoned off with parts of a footpath now a giant gaping hole with an impassable sheer drop.

Auckland residents have begun cleaning up drenched homes and filing insurance claims after a massive storm saturated the region.

If you're driving through West Auckland, you may face big traffic queues.

New Lynn man had been watching cars driving through the flooded street, and laughing at their predicament, when water began pouring into his flat.

About 35 people have been evacuated from a block of flats and a commercial building in New Lynn.

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.