These historic spots on the city's fringe will take you back in time.

The boyfriend of a 19-year-old girl killed after she sat down on a dark road has spoken of the drunken argument just before the tragedy.

Glenn Cooper says his black eye took three weeks to heal, and he still has a lump on his face.

A woman has died in hospital three days after her car hit a power pole near Pukekohe, south of Auckland, say police.

A fatal explosion may have been prevented if residents had reported their suspicions about a P-lab south of Auckland, police said.

A man died in an explosion at a P-lab in a house south of Auckland last night, with neighbours saying "everyone knows" the house was used to cook methamphetamine. Children did not go near it "for that reason", one man said. It was only a

New Zealand BMX stars Sarah Walker and Marc Willers won the Oceania continental championships at Pukekohe today.

It's a long and bumpy road ahead for BMX riders to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics and that journey continues today in Pukekohe.

Animal rights protesters plan to spend the night chained to silos on a battery hen farm near Pukekohe, 50km south of Auckland, in a bid to draw attention to the caged birds' living conditions.