Respect for private property is what makes a free and tolerant society. The baying of the crowd shouldn't dictate what you can and can't do, writes Rodney Hide.

A controversial penis-shaped sculpture is nothing new for West Auckland, says deputy mayor Penny Hulse.

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.

The Auckland man accused of murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father can now be named.

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.

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.

Where else can you get home-smoked salmon that tastes just the way grandpa used to make it?

Thousands of fans who took the train to last week's 'family friendly' Rugby World Cup opening celebrations had a horrifying night they would rather forget.

Transition Towns - communities readying themselves for a post-petroleum world - are quietly popping up in New Zealand suburbs.

This may be the best thing to happen to Titirangi since the annual Going West literary festival.

Taimi Allan, actor, a mental health promoter and educator, husband Stewart, a secondary school music teacher and recording artist live in an architecturally designed tree house, set amid bush in Titirangi. They share why they love Titirangi

Fashionable events worth checking out this week.

So close to Auckland, and yet a world away, is a hotel tucked into an area of unsurpassed beauty. Nikki Birrell heads into the heart of the Waitakeres.