Fuelled by the highest rate of unemployment in 13 years, the queues snaking along the pavements outside the Auckland City Mission have nothing festive about them.

Police have warned that if you have a warrant out for your arrest in South Auckland, your time is running out.

A supermarket worker sacked over non-payment for a loaf of banana bread she wanted to gift to a blind woman says the incident had "ruined my life".

Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.

An urgent review of the training community magistrates receive has been ordered after the murder of a young mother by her former partner who had been bailed.

A young mother was stabbed to death by her ex-partner who had been released on bail - despite police opposition.

A carparking building in Manukau that cost ratepayers $14 million to build is sitting virtually empty and slashing prices to attract vehicles.

A south Auckland man phoned police and claimed to have been involved in a year-old bank robbery because he "missed prison".

Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was found in a sleepout in south Auckland this morning.

Relationship with Auckland council on right path as mayor deals with old political divide

Otara police still do not know the identity of a jogger who was found dead in a south Auckland park earlier today.

A change is as good as a rest, but, as Dionne Christian and Danielle Wright find out, you don't always need to travel out of town - across town sometimes works too.

They're long and slimy and utterly fascinating. Dionne Christian tell us more about hanging out with eels.