The skipper of the doomed fishing charter vessel Francie is among those who died in yesterday's tragedy.

Women riding in style are being encouraged to show off their goods at a new car show being put on in a bid to help women's health.

Police deny chasing a white hatchback through West Auckland yesterday, saying police vehicles attended the incident after the car was located by helicopter.

Freedom campers might be able to pitch their tents across more of Auckland this summer.

A suspicious house fire being investigated by police in West Auckland is the same address where a woman was stabbed to death last month.

A hatchback was seen speeding and erratically weaving in and out of traffic on Auckland's Northern motorway before it crashed into a truck in Massey.

Power was cut to more than 260 homes and businesses in west Auckland this morning.

Women are being branded an untapped resource in filling the national trades shortage, as a new company seeks to get women into the construction industry.

A man asked a 12-year-old walking home to get inside his ute in Ranui - the latest report of strangers approaching children in the area.

A man named Jesus Christ broke into 13 of his neighbours' Auckland homes and took food and things he could sell to pawn shops.

Hunt continues for man who abducted and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in West Auckland.

It's hoped at least $5000 is raised for the family of the 11-year-old boy abducted and sexually assaulted in an horrific four-hour ordeal.

Police are continuing to support an 11-year-old boy who was plucked off a street and sexually assaulted in West Auckland, as the community rallies to bring his attacker to justice.

Three days after an 11-year-old boy was plucked off a street and sexually assaulted in West Auckland, his attacker remains on the loose.

While child sex offenders are often attracted to children, that is not the only cause for their offending, a forensic psychologist says.

Police are renewing appeals for anyone who may have seen the grey van used to abduct an 11-year-old boy on Thursday afternoon in West Auckland.

The abduction and sexual assault of a boy, 11, has left parents and schools in Ranui on edge.

Firefighters have rescued a baby locked in a car at Auckland's St Lukes mall this evening.

Criminologist Greg Newbold said the fact the boy was abducted was very uncommon.

Police say the boy got off a train at Ranui Station and started walking to his home when he was abducted by a man in a grey van.

A dramatic high-speed chase has ended with a stolen car smashing into a power pole in West Auckland.

15 fire crews are attending a large fire at a two-storey commercial building in Glendene, West Auckland.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

A pregnant woman is injured in a car crash in Glen Eden this morning.

Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

Tim and Fiona Noble have lost all possessions and the home in which their children grew up - and grandkids loved to visit - has been destroyed by fire.

Babies don't follow plans and little Esme Keene is no exception. She arrived before her dad managed to get her mum to hospital.

Firefighters work to cut free a person trapped in their vehicle in a west Auckland street.

Initial fears people may be inside soon passed.

A college student who began a renowned restaurant in his dorm room is hosting a pop-up dining experience tomorrow.