Peter Calder revisits the chunk of Auckland's west where immigrant families from Croatia settled to grow fruit - and make wine - for the expanding city.

A staff member is being supported by colleagues after a brazen gunpoint hold-up of The Warehouse in Henderson in the early hours of this morning.

Police in Waitakere are investigating after The Warehouse in Henderson was held up at gunpoint early this morning.

Rob Ashton, soon to join Auckland's Carlton-Cornwall club after dominating Wellington bowls for years, moved to the brink of an unprecedented double at the New Zealand Open at Henderson yesterday.

A woman at a hot rod show at a Henderson bar was badly hurt when an unoccupied car's handbrake came undone and the vehicle rolled into her leg.

An Auckland man posed as a mall security guard, forcing a teenage girl into a changing room and molested her as she wept.

The "shell-shocked'' mother of a security guard killed on the first day on the job feels betrayed by the justice system after the man accused of murdering him was acquitted today.

A young security guard, killed on his first night on the job, was filling in for a permanent staff member who had requested the night off for his birthday, a court has heard.

A fire that forced a family of eight to flee their west Auckland home early today was deliberately lit, police say.

The man accused of killing security guard Charanpreet Dhaliwal will go to trial to defend the charge of murder.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

Danielle Wright makes a day trip out of her family's fruit and vegetable shopping and discovers there are more options for 'picking your own' than she expected