Police warn against inaccurate postings on social media about children being approached.

The inquest for slain North Shore teenager Christie Marceau has opened in Auckland.

School zones are being rewritten to cope with bulging rolls at 43 Auckland schools.

Teen hospitalised with serious injuries after game.

National's plan to build 34,000 new homes completes a major housing turnaround.

Delays after injury-crash on Auckland's Northern Motorway.

A spokeswoman for Auckland Hospital said Tania Dalton's condition had worsened.

The man who offered a boy a lift to school on Wednesday morning had ''no sinister motive" police say.

Parents have been told to talk to their children about stranger danger after Wednesday's suspected abduction attempt in Northcote.

The disappearance of a ginger tom cat from a North Shore cattery has the cattery's owner puzzled and the family distraught.

Grab your cape and mask, one Auckland school is seeking a principal who is 'like Batman'.

Worried Hato Petera College principal is expecting bad news about the future of his school.

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Five migrant workers weren't paid minimum wage for their work at an Auckland food court.

Rumours are started to swirl about where the filming for popular home renovation show will take place.

Homes are to be built on the North Shore as the Government looks to rapidly ramp up housing supply in Auckland.

School board apologises for using fake cocaine, in the form of icing sugar, as a prop for its fundraising ball.

Developers who pushed for fast-track development rights in some of Auckland's special housing areas are now walking away from the process.

SkyPath opponents claim safety planning for the cycleway puts people at risk.

Police are appealing for help identifying a man that injured an elderly woman as he snatched her handbag at Northcote shops.

Chairman under fire from children’s health campaigner Dr Lance O’Sullivan is not going down without a fight, writing a letter overnight to stamp his authority on the role.

Custodians of bush and recreational areas near Auckland's Northcote Pt fear environmental degradation from a walking and cycling path across the harbour bridge.

A couple managed to escape as their parked car rolled off a wharf and into the water on the North Shore last night.

A person has been injured after a collision between a motorbike and a pedestrian in Auckland today.

"I'd say she'd probably only had maximum probably another minute, minute-and-a-half if she hadn't got out," said an officer who helped woman from car.

Two police officers who dragged a 63-year-old woman from her sinking car at an Auckland wharf believe she was about a minute away from drowning.

Erica Hannam and Richard Tout are restoring their heritage-listed Northcote Pt villa but are concerned about the proposed SkyPath pedestrian and cycle way.

Lucy Knight, the good Samaritan who was left fighting for her life after thwarting a bag-snatch attempt, says she hopes her attacker will have time to think.

A man has been found dead in a van on Auckland's North Shore but police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.

Sentencing has been put off for the teenager who seriously injured good Samaritan Lucy Knight.