A new 4.5km stretch of motorway connecting the southern and southwestern motorways at Manukau has been opened.

Auckland has some of the best art galleries on offer in the South Pacific.

Tapu Misa looks back at the migration that changed the face of Auckland.

As the city spread beyond the isthmus, planners worried about how to contain the population

Maori who came to Auckland from the country in the 1950s met much prejudice with scenes reminiscent of the American South, writes Rawiri Taonui.

Down the southern motorway, entire state house suburbs were created by the Government.

Retired troops came here to defend the colony from the "Maori threat" and stayed to found the settlements of Onehunga, Panmure, Otahuhu and Howick.

A $465,000 house has been seized from a commercial cannabis grower as punishment instead of an 18-month prison sentence.

The body of murdered Aucklander Carmen Thomas is believed to have been dumped in bush southeast of Auckland.

Police visited the workplace of missing escort Carmen Thomas' ex-partner while he was out of the office.

Virgil Evetts and Diana Clement discover the public can benefit from student chefs learning on the job, with great food at bargain prices.

The police hunt for the killer of Carmen Thomas today moved to rural southeast Auckland, after a newly reported sighting of her car around the time she went missing.

A lone bee has been blamed for a truck crash that cut power to more than 1700 homes and put the driver in hospital.

A man was run over and killed by a rubbish truck in South Auckland this morning, say police.