Almost 40,000 Auckland homes are expected to remain without power overnight following a massive outage caused by a fire early this morning.

Mobile phone service for Vodafone, Spark and 2degrees customers in Auckland has been badly affected by today’s power outage.

Sarah Ell takes her crew on Ports of Auckland's fun and interesting free guided water tour.

Elisabeth Easther and her son Theo took a sneak peek at Motat’s newest exhibit Welcome to the Machine, declaring it entertaining, educational and epic.

A pedestrian is in a serious condition in hospital this morning after being hit by a taxi in Auckland overnight.

It's that happy time of year for hundreds of thousands of Auckland households - the annual dividend payout from the AECT is in the mail.

One of Auckland's original markets, Victoria Park, is welcoming back stall holders for cottage industry arts and crafts and street food to breathe some life into its lanes.

Sunshine, fresh air, the great outdoors. Spring has got us all anticipating summer. Better get ourselves out there then.

Buyers of hundreds of new Auckland waterfront apartments will escape the leasehold ground rent trap.

Auckland will get something special for the downtown area from the sale of QE Square by Auckland Council, says Precinct Properties chief executive Scott Pritchard.

An Auckland waiter’s plea for the object of his affection to get in touch has gone viral.

A high speed chase this morning saw the driver of a stolen car speeding towards oncoming traffic on the wrong side of Auckland’s Ponsonby Road.

Auckland Council is considering scrapping the $3.7 million three-year-old Te Wero bridge linking the Viaduct Harbour with Wynyard Quarter and building a $25 million replacement.

Sharks are the least of James Russell's worries at Kelly Tarlton's.

A sprawling luxury penthouse on Auckland's waterfront once touted as the country's biggest and most expensive apartment with an asking price of $10 million has been sold for just $900,000.

Danielle Wright heads into the CBD to find family options that'll get the heart pumping.

Danielle Wright visits 'Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton', at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

A $11m cycleway through Grafton Gully will open this week - but there's no access to Auckland university - sold as the cycleway's most likely users.

The Super City's been costly for residents of the former Auckland City Council who have been hammered by a new single rating system.

Celebrity taco chefs Otis and Sarah Frizzell spent yesterday serving at their usual Ponsonby spot instead of at a food festival their taco truck was used to advertise.

Police investigating alleged money laundering seize millions in assets from controversial multimillionaire

Ports of Auckland said it had reached its goal of achieving a 12 per cent return on equity two years ahead of schedule with a net profit of $74 million for the year to June 30, up 90 per cent on the previous year.