A person suffered moderate injuries in a large fire in East Auckland this afternoon.

Police are hoping to identify witnesses after a fatal crash in Pakuranga that killed a college student last week.

The Pakuranga College community is in mourning after the death of one of its senior students in a motorcycle accident.

Pakuranga Plaza will become a new "urban village", with a hotel, community facilities, apartments, offices and more shops in a $500 million upgrade.

An elderly man has been hospitalised after being assaulted in his Pakuranga home in the early hours of this morning.

An elderly man, believed to be around 85, has been hospitalised after being attacked in his Pakuranga home.

A woman was assaulted when two men allegedly armed with a knife and a shotgun entered an Auckland house in the early hours of this morning, and a shot was fired.

A teen murderer's "one-fingered salute" to a press photographer made a lie of his remorse, a High Court judge says.

A teen who stabbed a fellow partygoer to death over a kiss has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 11 years.

The steady life in sales and prices started in the central Auckland suburbs over a year ago and has now spread across the new supercity. But as Bruce Morris reports, it's still tough going out in the provinces.

East Tamaki Healthcare director Ranjna Patel has lived in Pakuranga for the past 32 years. She tells Farida Master why Pakuranga is perfect for her family.

Jools and Lynda Topp's Pakuranga Bowling Club alter egos almost brought the Civic's roof down.

Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Exercise, fresh air and new perspectives await those who venture on to Auckland's off-road cycleways, writes Kirsten Warner.