A Glen Innes tenant battling against eviction from her former state house has put a surprising argument to the Tenancy Tribunal.

A brawl on a Glen Innes street early this morning ended with one person being rushed to hospital with life-threatening stab wounds.

An artwork mirroring a state house, on Auckland's waterfront, has been officially unveiled tonight.

An east Auckland creek is full of dead fish and eels after a sewage leak caused by someone flushing wet wipes down the toilet.

Witnesses have described their terror following a major police chase in Auckland this morning.

Owners of state house where Glen Innes tenant is staging protest says it offered her several homes to move into in the area, including a brand new home.

An Auckland beneficiary is protesting this morning as she fights eviction from the two-bedroom state home she's lived in for 21 years.

Armed police descended on an East Auckland suburb this morning.

Police are still puzzled by an alleged kidnapping from Sylvia Park in September.

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

A man with Parkinson's disease who went missing in the Glenn Innes area has been found and is safe.

Goodman (NZ) Limited, the manager of Goodman Property Trust, has announced the purchase of a huge 5.8 hectare industrial site at 127-131 Pilkington Rd in Glen Innes for $30.3 million.

Serious weathertightness issues have been found at the popular Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Orakei and repairs to the buildings will cost $12 million and take five years to fix.

An Auckland school has had to warn its students about rodents in the area after a teenager was bitten when she picked up a dying rat.

Rats are running amok in Glen Innes, chewing through linen, using drainpipes as links between houses and even biting one child on his ear.

A $200 million loan plus ownership of state houses worth $1.2 billion have given the Tamaki Redevelopment Company clear financial clout.

The Government is handing over the ownership of about 2800 Tamaki state homes to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company in a move Labour are calling "reckless".

Having grown up in Christchurch and attended a largely Pakeha high school, Leonie Wethey finds she learns as much from the predominantly Pasifika students at Tamaki College as they learn from her.

A 59-year-old beneficiary with heart problems has become the first Glen Innes tenant to vow to fight an eviction notice as a new mixed housing development gathers pace.

When dental hygienist Cynthia Wallbridge read in the Herald that 40 per cent of New Zealand 5-year-olds have tooth decay, she was dismayed.

The house on the corner site in Taniwha St, Glen Innes, is a case study of everything Housing NZ says is wrong with its state housing stock.

A man shot in the leg and then abandoned in a car in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes this morning is believed to know his shooter, police say.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira has been found guilty of failing to comply with a police instruction at an Auckland housing protest last year.

MP Hone Harawira denies a charge which followed a housing protest, saying he was using his car lights to protect three women on a roof.

Video footage of chaotic scenes at an Auckland housing protest in which Mana Party leader Hone Harawira was arrested last year has been played to a court.

Two-storey townhouses and stand-alone houses expected to sell from $400,000 to $700,000 have been unveiled in the first stage of redeveloping 156 Housing NZ sites in Glen Innes.

Tamati Patuwai (Ngati Whatua) tells Elisabeth Easther what he loves about living in Glen Innes, and how much the area has changed since he was a boy

Editorial: It is hardly surprisingly that many state-house tenants in Glen Innes are angry about being asked to leave homes they have inhabited for years.