South Auckland communities have been assured a potential new motorway, which they feared may cut through more than 100 homes and several schools, will give them a wide berth.

Counties Manukau police are hunting this man after a robbery at a Papakura bar last night.

An elderly South Auckland woman was tied up and robbed in her own home by a knife-wielding burglar, whose brazen violence has appalled police.

Liz Light takes a splendid summer walk.

Danielle Wright discovers the City of Sails is the best place to be this holiday season.

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Three people have been arrested in connection to a series of burglaries targeting elderly people in their south Auckland homes.

A man has been arrested following a serious assault which left a man fighting for his life in Auckland overnight.

A teenager who shot and killed his friend with a high-powered air rifle has been sentenced to two years and seven months imprisonment.

A South Auckland teenager fleeing from police choose the wrong fence to vault in a bid to escape, and leaped right into the grounds of the local police station.

A string of attacks on the elderly has prompted an appeal to support one of society's most vulnerable groups.

Police are urging motorists in south Auckland not to pay window washers, who they say are a dangerous hazard.

Armed police have been called in to help police raid a house in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe today, and a wanted person has been arrested.

Long seen as poor and crime-ridden, South Auckland is reinventing itself as a vibrant business centre.

Staff at a shop in south Auckland escaped without injury after a masked man fired a shotgun in the store during a robbery this morning.

A police officer who was attacked during a traffic stop in south Auckland on Saturday night has been released from hospital.

A young woman dragged more than 50m by a hit-and-run driver early yesterday faces a long road to recovery but was able to speak to police this morning and is recovering "better than expected".

A young woman dragged for more than 50 metres by a hit-and-run driver in south Auckland kept calling for her mum as two good Samaritans tried to comfort her.

A young woman may have been dragged 50 metres by a hit and run driver early this morning, police say.

A group of Epsom and Royal Oak residents have been working themselves into a right old lather over low-flying aircraft, writes Brian Rudman.

A minibus full of students from a south Auckland tertiary education institute was shot at as it returned to campus after a field trip this afternoon.

There is evidence a firearm was used at a house where a man and a woman were found dead in south Auckland.

Papakura couple Junior and Kim Sipeli have missed out on a $10,000 gift from the Government because they bought their first house two months too soon.