Bus company chief defends driver and blames "stupid bloody kids" for opening back door while bus was moving.

A former West Auckland principal found to be storing thousands of pornographic images has been sentenced to 16 months in jail.

"Love Hendo" is the theme of two murals being unveiled today on the walls of the Waitakere Community Resource Centre in Henderson.

Police say a pupil believed snatched from outside an Auckland school last week was not at the centre of an abduction but travelling home with his father.

A West Auckland school community has been put on alert after a child was taken in a stranger's car this week.

Police are at the scene of a crash in West Auckland where a person has been thrown from their vehicle.

Shandelle Battersby spends a night in the bush at Waitakere Estate.

An elderly man was plucked to safety in a rescue basket tonight in West Auckland, after he fell down a bank near a river and became stuck.

A fire-gutted derelict house has been described by neighbours as a glaring example of the need to crack down on unkempt and nuisance properties.

Elisabeth Easther tackles the Waitakeres' Fairy Falls Walk.

A house in West Auckland has been destroyed by fire this afternoon.

Tsunami sirens will be tested at midday on Sunday at north and west Auckland beaches.

An Auckland property developer parked his late-model Lamborghini in a mobility parking space without a permit.

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.

A teenager is seriously injured following a crash involving a car and a skateboard in west Auckland overnight.

In the High Court at Auckland this morning, Malik was jailed for life for double murder with the prospect of parole only after 18 and a half years.

Oratia offers more than the average farmers' market, writes Karen Phelps.

Danielle Wright falls for a beautiful bush reserve in the Waitakere Ranges.

Police are hunting for up to six people who attacked a security guard and left him unconscious outside a shopping centre in West Auckland.

The property encompassing Coopers Creek’s vineyard at 601 State Highway 16, Huapai in West Auckland, is for sale with a lease arrangement providing for the continued operation of the winery and vineyard by the current owners.

The principal of a new charter school has resigned, less than two weeks after the institution opened, while he is investigated by the Teachers Council over exam entries.

Onlookers who rushed to a crash scene on a rural road northwest of Auckland tried to comfort the driver before he died in his upturned car.

Police are working to establish whether a person killed in a car crash in Waitakere, Auckland today was the driver or a passenger.

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

The owner of the mystery drone found crashed on a Titirangi property before Christmas has come forward to reclaim it.

As a stricken surfer clung to a cave roof while being buffeted by huge waves, Tai Kahn leaped from a helicopter into the churning seas to save the teen's life.

An Australian visiting Auckland has been missing since the early hours of Friday morning.

Work started this week on the $36 million expansion of New Zealand's first shopping mall.