Aucklanders get their first glimpse of the new Whoa! Studios today.

Emergency services have been called to Avondale, where a digger hit a gas main.

Auckland police are urging joggers to take extra care, following an attack on a young woman at Western Springs last night.

There's only a handful of suburbs left in all of Auckland where first home buyers can get a helping hand from the government.

One person is dead and another is injured after a crash in Henderson this morning.

"They were glowing balls flying through the air."

More than 1000 households in West Auckland were without power this morning.

A caravan at a West Auckland campground has been engulfed by fire in suspicious blaze.

Nearly 100 Auckland suburbs have a median value of more than $1 million, new data shows.

Police are today knocking on doors of homes near where a 11-year-old boy was abducted in West Auckland almost two weeks ago.

A high flying real estate agent has been censured for failing to tell buyers the building inspection reports he provided were paid for by him and prepared by his own company.

The proposed Unitary Plan, has come under scrutiny at the opening of a High Court hearing where several appellants argue errors of law were made in its development.

COMMENT: That a skipper with so much experience attempted to tackle that bar in such a huge swell just doesn't make sense.

Volunteer lifeguards battled waves up to 7m high as they desperately searched for survivors of the Kaipara charter boat tragedy.

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.

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.

Few details are available about the terrifying abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy in West Auckland last week.

Police are investigating after a video emerged on social media showing a group of teens beating a girl at a West Auckland train station.

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.