Titirangi Volunteer Fire Brigade firefighters who rescued eight ducklings will receive a Hero to Animals Award.

A family with a severely autistic daughter could lose their home if they can't raise more than $250,000 to fix their leaking property.

The man who climbed a Titirangi kauri tree to stop it from being felled pleaded guilty to trespass when he appeared in the Waitakere District Court this morning.

Tree protester Johno Smith has been charged with trespass and bailed after handing himself into police this morning.

A climber is occupying an ancient kauri tree to stop it being felled in West Auckland.

Contractors try to take down ancient kauri tree whose owners promised to save after treetop protest earlier this year.

Clamping is out at the Titirangi supermarket where shoppers threatened a boycott over the parking enforcement strategy.

Wheel clamping in New Zealand is set to become a thing of the past with a new code of conduct that aims to almost eliminate the practice.

Te Uru is an attractive venue for music, especially in the more informal space of the gallery's workshop, with the ambience of Titirangi greenery outside the windows.

An 8-year-old girl struck on a pedestrian crossing is expected to be woken from her coma today.

The aunt of an eight-year-old struck by a car on a pedestrian crossing saw the accident unfold in her rear-view mirror just seconds after she passed the youngster.

A man has turned himself in to police after a car ploughed into a Titirangi cafe last night.

A diner leaped for his life when a speeding car mounted the pavement and crashed into a West Auckland cafe last night.

Danielle Wright discovers clubs happy to welcome you in out of the cold.

A west Auckland man accused of murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father in their home says he still loves his parents although his dad doesn't talk to him.

A man accused of murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father will undergo a further psychiatric report to determine whether he was insane at the time.

Catherine Smith looks at some of the new facilities and activities on offer in Auckland's regional parks.

A man has appeared in court charged with the stabbing of a couple in their west Auckland home last night.

A woman was killed and a man critically injured in a suspected stabbing in Titirangi last night. A man was taken into custody after a search of the area.

"I see tourists regularly and they ask is there somewhere to eat and sleep?" Ken Turner's planned eco tourism venture would've been impossible earlier.

Twenty-five kauri around Colin McCahon's Titirangi cottage (left) have dieback disease for which there is no cure.

A waiter sacked from a popular Auckland cafe for allegedly stealing a $15 tip wants to move on with his life after a "horrible" ordeal to clear his name.

We came here because we were meeting up with visitors from Wellington and wanted to try somewhere new.

One of West Auckland’s best-kept secrets ticks all the boxes for an evening out.