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.

A number of suburban streets gave the CBD a run for its money in the noise stakes.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A customer has attacked a staff member with a knife at Amway's head warehouse in the Auckland suburb of East Tamaki.