The High Court has found that the independent panel acted lawfully when it recommended allowing more intensive housing.

EXCLUSIVE: Water bills in the country's largest city may have to rise to stop raw sewage flowing into Auckland Harbour almost every time it rains.

A woman is in hospital after a car hit a tree last night.

Emergency services responding to reports of a car in the water at Blockhouse Bay today soon learned the car had been there for a number of weeks.

WATCH: An Auckland man had a "grandstand view" of an unusual rescue mission which unfolded over the past few days.

Three drivers found a watery park for the night - the shallows of Manukau Harbour.

Police are still searching for a man thought to have entered a Blockhouse Bay home with a gun under his shirt.

Police have cleared a residential property in Dundale Avenue, Blockhouse Bay after reports of a man entering the house with what was thought to be a gun under his shirt.

Baby's injuries accidental, say police.

Just months after council approval to cut down a centuries-old kauri in Titirangi caused an outcry, officers are in the gun again over pine trees on the Blockhouse Bay skyline.

Police are concerned about a man suffering from an array of medical conditions who has gone missing from an Auckland rest home.

Thieves struggling to haul a keg out of an Auckland cafe have been caught on tape - and are being slammed by the eatery's regulars on social media.

Thieves have gone to great lengths to steal an iconic landmark from a roundabout in the Auckland suburb of Blockhouse Bay.

Sudeepta Vyas, who works in HR at the Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind tells Elisabeth Easther why Blockhouse Bay was her family's first choice of Auckland's suburb.

Parks aren't just for the children, with many offering exercise equipment to keep all ages happy, writes Susan Edmunds.

With the All Whites' surprise World Cup success, it seems soccer awareness is on the rise. And kids and parents alike are loving it, writes Gill South.

Gill South gets her moles checked by an Auckland expert dedicated to the cause.

Two young brothers who went missing from their home overnight were found with a relative who had not called anyone, say police.

A west Auckland boy put his mother through the most terrifying moments of her life when he went missing yesterday.

A woman who inflicted head injuries to her then three-year-old son has been told he is likely to need care for the rest of his life.

Itupa Julie Mikaio was found guilty of wounding with intent to injure her four-year-old son, but was not found guilty on a more serious charge.

A woman accused of inflicting head injuries which nearly killed her son asked the child's grandmother for forgiveness, a court was told.