In this video, school staff including principal John Rohs discuss the impact of a variety of social issues on the students.

Melevesi's song Under The Bridge was recorded at BigPop studios this year for the Herald film of the same name, about a year inside Papakura High School.

At the edge of the city and margins of society, a school is fighting back.

Northbound traffic is crawling on Auckland's Southern Motorway due to a crash.

A team of journalists spent a year inside one of the country's most underprivileged schools filming the Herald's first long-form documentary.

Three students are completing their final year at the beleaguered Papakura High School.

At the edge of the city and the margins of society a school and its students are battling for a brighter future. This is the story of a year inside their world.

Under The Bridge marks the New Zealand Herald's first foray into long-form documentary making.

Increased police numbers are good, as long as violent and anti-social crimes are targeted, bashing victim says.

A Domino's manager has apologised for "really awful service" after a family accidentally ate pizzas with meat on them, despite being religiously vegetarian.

Ambulance staff left quickly to take a patient to hospital, not realising a medical supplies bag was missing.

Police have arrested two people who tried to flee after they crashed their car into a house early this morning.

The family of the woman who was stabbed 15 times are "overwhelmed and humbled" with the outpouring of public support.

Even after 15 stab wounds, a blood-soaked woman made sure her baby was safe. Supanee Saensree was attacked while she lay sleeping with her daughter.

A car has crashed into a fish and chip shop in Papakura.

A van had flipped on its roof, a police spokeswoman said.

A woman who vandalised graves at an Auckland cemetery earlier this year - mostly of children and stillborn babies - has been found

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget

Landowners on three Auckland sites who were told to hurry up or lose fast-track building rights 16 months ago have sat by while land values have skyrocketed.

Nearly 1000 mourners gather to farewell teen who died last month in Whitianga.

#WillSheVote? Lifelong Local Body election non-voter Hinekia Fitzgerald hears from candidates on her journey to the polls.

Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a local body election. Will this election be different?

A homeless solo mother of three who was given a voucher for a motel room had to give one child to her parents because there was no space for all of them in the motel.

Police are warning motorists to avoid roads in South Auckland following a significant oil spill.

Papakura residents were awoken about 5am today to the sounds of explosions from a car ablaze in a Red Hill parking lot.

Housing NZ has bought a motel to help meet the area's housing shortage - but the existing residents will have to move out to make room for the homeless.

Sprucing up tired town centres, public safety and managing ongoing residential growth are the biggest concerns for Manurewa-Papakura ward voters.

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

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

The man who at the centre of an armed offenders call out in Papakura today has died.