A gutsy Auckland mother fought off a would-be car thief who had lured her from her running vehicle by leaving a road cone in her path.

A high-performing, predominantly Maori and Pasifika school says it is being snubbed by locals because of its low decile and "brown" community.

Police are still searching for the person responsible for a brutal attack on an elderly Auckland couple last night.

A house has been destroyed by fire in the central Auckland suburb of Onehunga this morning.

Two children have been reported missing from Onehunga area, Auckland. The children, Summah (pronounced Summer) and Isaiah Brown were last seen with their family at the Onehunga mall at around 1.15pm this afternoon.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.

The death of a 6-year-old girl in a house fire in Auckland today has led to calls for matches to be kept away from children.

A crane was needed to clear an on-ramp at Onehunga yesterday after a rubbish truck and trailer overturned, spilling debris across the motorway.

Watercare Services Ltd has been fined $81,000 and ordered to pay $315,000 in reparations over a fatal gas explosion in Auckland.

The worker whose blow torch is believed to have sparked a fatal explosion in an Auckland water main has described carrying out "just a normal job".

Watercare Services Ltd has pleaded guilty to two charges over a fatal gas explosion in Onehunga in 2011.

You know how much you're prepared to pay, so why take so long to lay your cards on the table? Bruce Morris ponders the slow-coach tactics of the auction room.

We came here because we'd heard the food and the service were fantastic, so we wanted to see if it was worth adding to our list of local favourites

Donna McIntyre discovers the lesser-known charms of Manukau Harbour.

Irishman Eoghan O'Sullivan tells Elisabeth Easther why the central Auckland suburb is a grand place to live.

We came here because we often stop for some of their great takeaway coffee en route to the train station at the south end of the Mall and have been meaning to come back for a sit-down meal for a while.