Latest from Kumeu

Well tuned Mini hums along nicely

Marketing language can be flowery, but for once they're right; this car really does sound like a choir of angels. Or at least the atonal church organ reverb that heralds a cinematic spiritual moment - and sets the air alive with sound.

House evacuated after gas line ruptured

Recipe for success for next Hottest Home Baker

Meet the new batch of contestants for <i>New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker</i>.

Enter our hot rod caption competition

Think you have a way with words? Put your talent to good use and enter our caption competition - and don't forget to check back for the latest photos.

New roundabout on SH16

Get strapped in for the time of your life

A new book by Shane Boocock features the best of adventure tourism in Auckland.

Schoolboy heroes 'simply doing their duty'

Three teenage boys have been praised as heroes for their actions after a serious collision.

'I heard the kids screaming'

A young man is dead after his car crossed the centre line and was partially crushed under a school bus carrying 21 teenagers.

One dead in car and school bus crash

One person was killed and two critically injured when a car collided with a school bus near Kumeu, west of Auckland, this afternoon.