Aisling Symes' family say they will visit the parents of a toddler crushed by a brick wall just 3km from where their daughter died.

A new generation of conservatives has wrested our biggest city from the left, and they're just as likely to wear black jeans as business suits.

Artist Don Binney has been attracted to the Waitakere coast since childhood. He tells Alan Perrott how the diverse landscape can mean so much to so many

Dozens of firefighters last night battled a huge blaze at the country's biggest graveyard, the Waikumete Cemetery in West Auckland.

Two men held a knife to a taxi driver's throat before pushing him out of his cab and driving off - for $30 in coins.

Artist Don Binney has been attracted to the Waitakere coast since childhood.

A teenager is missing, presumed drowned, after he was washed off his boogie board at Piha yesterday.

A man who was out walking his dogs says one of the pets led him to a severely injured teenager who had been attacked in a park with his girlfriend.

A young mother frantically tried to revive her baby daughter after finding the infant floating face down in the bath next to her twin.

Residents say they heard screams for help, moaning and sobbing in a park where a couple were violently attacked early yesterday.